Finally cracked how SuperGrok billing works.

2026-07-29 14:17

Finally cracked how SuperGrok billing works. Your weekly quota is fixed and shared across XAI, Build, and Chat. The difference comes down to multiplier rates and caching. XAI burns way more credits per call than Build. Also if you're routing Build through 9router like I was, you get zero cache hits. Only the official Build CLI actually caches. Someone tested it: the official Build CLI pulls at least 1B tokens per week on SuperGrok's grok-4.5. Build CLI went open source recently too, honestly pretty solid as a daily coding agent.

Qwen 3.8 is free right now and it's wild.

Alibaba launched a Growth Plan — use Qwen3.8-Max-Preview for your actual projects, send them wins or disaster stories, and they reward you. Preview pricing is already 10% of standard. Night hours (10pm-8am Beijing time) knock another 80% off. That's basically zero.

2026-07-29

I'm on the $1.5/mo plan for 50 IPs.

pointed them at opencode running deepseek-v4-flash as the Hermes. been using it for real and it's actually solid, everyday stuff is no problem and it keeps up fine even when I pile on the work.

2026-07-29

Meituan shipped LongCat-2.5

. 1.6T params, ~48B active, native multimodal, aimed at long-horizon agents, trained start to finish on Chinese hardware. Images get quantized into multi-level discrete tokens, and that's where Visual Coding and 3D pick up. On the RL side, failed trajectories get turned back into verifiable training tasks. W4A4 inference, 43% faster prefill. Meituan's own evals put it between Claude Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.

2026-11-02

SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova Loop-9B-Preview.

It stacks layers instead of parameters. The decoder has 32 layers, but layers 4 through 27 run twice with shared weights, so a forward pass does 56 layers of work while the checkpoint stays at 9B. Their own eval numbers: 71.38 on BIRD-Dev and 13.72 on AutomationBench, both above Qwen3.5-27B. Terminal Bench is still behind.

2026-11-02