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OpenAI • OpenAI

OpenAI offers up to 90% discounts to win over Anthropic's customers: OpenAI is offering discounts of up to 90% to win over Anthropic customers, The Decoder reports. Rippling, Replit and DataCamp say switching cut their AI costs by up to 90%.

Coding-agent harness swaps barely change pass rates but can triple cost, study finds: A controlled study found that switching coding-agent harnesses such as Claude Code, OpenCode or mini-SWE-agent barely changed pass rates versus rerunning the same setup, while cost per task could triple. The higher cost was driven mainly by system prompts resent at every step.

AI Research • The Decoder

DeepSeek releases DeepInfer inference framework for Nvidia and Huawei chips: DeepSeek released DeepInfer, its large-scale model inference framework, on October 20. It supports Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend chips, offers distributed inference, speculative decoding and structured output, and aims to improve throughput and latency while cutting computing costs and energy use.

AI Infrastructure • TechNode