Google released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with expanded video capabilities and cost reductions. The model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second, allowing scenes to be extended in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds total. A new 360p draft mode runs up to 60 percent faster at a third of the cost of the standard mode, according to reporting (The Decoder) and detailed in (Google DeepMind’s technical blog).
A comparison of agent execution sandboxes across five major platforms - E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel - revealed divergent pricing and performance models. The analysis measured cold start latency, normalized per-second costs to cost per 1,000 executions, and mapped differences in filesystem persistence, idle billing, and network policy (MarkTechPost). Additionally, Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model priced at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, with inference running on Chinese AI chips rather than Nvidia hardware (The Decoder).