AI News · October 2, 2026

AI today: 8 notable releases, 8 price changes — October 2

38,093 stars today51 new projects+3,007 deepseek-harness

The open-source AI ecosystem gained 38,093 GitHub stars so far today, with 51 new projects entering the index. "deepseek-harness" leads the day with +3,007 stars.

The cards below are measured from olud.ai tracking data — releases, pricing and detections as they happened.

Releases of the day

n8n [email protected] 2.41.6 (2026-10-02) · Bug Fixes · * core: Keep the task runner running on an unhandled promise rejection (#40092) (d719c87) Paperclip v2026.1001.0 Paperclip v2026.1001.0 · > Released: 2026-10-01 · Paperclip v2026.1001.0 carries 77 commits, promoted from 2026.921.0-beta.1. The headline is reliability: a deep hardening pass... Cline desktop-v0.0.41 Cloud sessions can now use the same models as Cline on the web. The model picker lists Cline Usage-Billing, ClinePass, and ClineFree models (organization accounts don't get... Ray Serve ray-2.59.0 Highlights · > * Ray Data LLM & Ray Serve LLM are GA/Stable: the LLM APIs graduate to general availability this release (\#65194), alongside an upgrade to vLLM 0.27.0... Ray ray-2.59.0 Highlights · > * Ray Data LLM & Ray Serve LLM are GA/Stable: the LLM APIs graduate to general availability this release (\#65194), alongside an upgrade to vLLM 0.27.0... SGLang v0.5.21 Highlights · *779 PRs from 227 contributors.* · New models · | Model | Type | Cookbook | |---|---|---| | DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash | LLM / VLM | link | | GigaChat 3.5 | LLM / VLM |... Google ADK v2.11.0 2.11.0 (2026-10-01) · Highlights · This release adds graceful cancellation and tool confirmation to workflows, a tool for consulting another model mid-task, and a built-in... Pydantic AI v2.53.0 🛡️ Security · This release fixes one security issue in ConcurrencyLimitedModel. See the advisory for full details and affected versions. · - GHSA-6fqq-452j-qhrp (high): a...

Pricing moves

▼ 50%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek · input $0.08 → $0.04 per 1M tokens
▼ 77%GLM 5.2Z.AI · input $0.62 → $0.14 per 1M tokens
▼ 73%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek · input $0.78 → $0.21 per 1M tokens
▼ 34%Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI · input $0.65 → $0.43 per 1M tokens
▲ 38%MiniMax M1MiniMax · input $0.4 → $0.55 per 1M tokens
▼ 86%Kimi K3Moonshot AI · input $3 → $0.42 per 1M tokens
▼ 84%GLM 5.3Z.AI · input $1.4 → $0.22 per 1M tokens
▲ 50%DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek · input $0.02 → $0.03 per 1M tokens

Emerging projects

Research pick

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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