AI News · September 16, 2026

GLM 5.2 price up 106%; Qwen3.5 down 48%

71 new projects

GLM 5.2 input price surged 106% to $1.4 per 1M tokens, the largest single-day increase tracked by the index. The move comes from Z.AI and affects all users of the model.

The weekly index added 2,074 new projects and 100 new Hugging Face spaces, maintaining the high influx seen in recent weeks. The ecosystem continues to expand rapidly across open-source AI tools and model hosting.

Two other price moves offset the GLM increase: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B input price dropped 48% to $0.16 per 1M tokens, and GLM 5.3 Flash input price fell 47% to $0.08 per 1M tokens. Both cuts are from Alibaba and Z.AI respectively.

Releases of the day

Five minor releases shipped today. n8n 2.39.6 fixed Gateway credits eligibility checks and added a v3 breaking change rule. Langflow v1.12.2 upgraded Guardrails with optional combined rule and model checks. Morphic v1.7.0 added analytics for feedback control and fixed a prompt mutation bug. Stability Matrix v2.16.4 added Comfy Kitchen Attention as a launch option for ComfyUI and ComfyUI-Zluda, and updated Windows ROCm support. Nav2 1.5.2, tagged Lyrical Sync 1, shipped with minor improvements.

Pricing moves

Three price moves were recorded. GLM 5.2 input price rose 106% to $1.4 per 1M tokens, affecting Z.AI users. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B input price fell 48% to $0.16 per 1M tokens, benefiting Alibaba model users. GLM 5.3 Flash input price dropped 47% to $0.08 per 1M tokens, also from Z.AI.

▲ 106%GLM 5.2Z.AI · input $0.68 → $1.4 per 1M tokens
▼ 48%Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba · input $0.31 → $0.16 per 1M tokens
▼ 47%GLM 5.3 FlashZ.AI · input $0.15 → $0.08 per 1M tokens

Research pick

A Hugging Face community paper with 273 upvotes, "Continual Learning Mechanisms Compose for Long-Horizon Memorization" by Zheyuan Zhang, Alvin Zhang, Daniel Khashabi et al., studies how language models can internalize information arriving over time and retain it through many updates. The authors introduce long-horizon memorization, a setting where a model learns 100 query-answer tasks sequentially.

The bigger picture

Today’s facts show sharp price divergence between GLM models and Qwen, while the research pick signals continued interest in model memory and continual learning. The steady inflow of new projects and spaces suggests the open-source AI ecosystem remains highly active.

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

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