MiniMax M3.1 Flash(minimax.io)
501 points by jtg | 209 comments
MiniMax blog post announcing the MiniMax M3.1 Flash model, claiming gains in agentic tasks, coding, and computer use with faster, cheaper inference.
#inference-cost on Hacker News
4 stories tagged inference-cost, newest first.
Tokens too cheap to meter(jyn.dev)
326 points by teoruiz | 214 comments
Blog post on jyn.dev arguing LLM token prices are falling by orders of magnitude, so quality and access, not token cost, will limit AI use.
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
435 points by adam_rida | 210 comments
Show HN post introducing Echo, a system that routes and combines multiple open-weight LLMs per request to match a stronger model's results at about one third the cost.
Numbers every LLM developer should know(github.com)
365 points by richardliaw | 86 comments
GitHub repository from the Ray project with a cheatsheet of key numbers (costs, token ratios, GPU memory, latency) every LLM developer should know.