Alibaba and Z.AI hike model prices as Qwen3 VL input jumps 145%
60,456 stars today94 new projects+1,583 skills
By olud.ai editorial · built from our own tracking data, published daily
Alibaba raised input prices on three Qwen models today while hosting platform Z.AI lifted GLM 5.2 by 125 percent. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking saw the steepest increase at 145 percent to $0.98 per 1M tokens. Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 rose 67 percent to $0.15 per 1M tokens. The only decrease was on Qwen3.6 27B, which fell 3 percent to $0.29 per 1M tokens.
Across the 10,000-plus open-source AI projects tracked by the hub, 60,456 GitHub stars were gained today. The index added 94 new projects. For the week, 2,467 new projects entered the index along with 100 new Hugging Face spaces. The top gainer on GitHub today is "skills" with 1,583 stars.
Releases of the day
Four minor updates shipped today alongside one larger release. OpenCode v1.18.12 fixed Azure GPT-5.5 plus completion requests failing when reasoning is enabled, and reduced composer lag for large drafts on desktop. Google ADK v2.6.2 updated its gcloud command to use a beta flag. Pydantic AI v2.23.0 added Bedrock support for model settings extra headers and restored stability features. Windmill v1.778.0 lets apps use the windmill-client SDK from raw app frontend code and added Azure workload identity auth for MSSQL and Postgres. Llama.cpp b10256 is the notable release today, parallelizing a non-contiguous concat kernel in its SYCL backend for improved GPU performance.
A Hugging Face community paper titled "LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks" received 67 upvotes. The authors Ziyu Ma, Hailang Huang, Shun Zou and others address a gap in current agent harnesses, which struggle to maintain execution and state across many interdependent steps. The work proposes a new harness designed for long-horizon tasks requiring sustained reasoning, tool use and revision.
The price hikes on Alibaba's Qwen lineup and Z.AI's GLM 5.2 suggest providers are rebalancing costs for high-demand or newer model tiers. Meanwhile, the steady flow of 94 new projects today and the weekly total of 2,467 indicate the open-source ecosystem continues expanding rapidly even as commercial API pricing tightens.
Source: olud.ai tracking of 10,000+ open-source AI projects, 300+ models and live provider pricing. Figures are measured, not estimated. All releases · Live pricing · Latest in AI
