ai morning #48 — google ships gemini 3.7 flash at half the price, three weeks after 3.6

Google shipped its third new Flash model in three months, just 21 days after the previous one. Benchmarks jumped across the board. The introductory price was cut in half — but doubles on a fixed date. Meanwhile DeepSeek, the company that broke the AI pricing floor, just raised rates by over 1,100%.Marcus walks through what happened, why Simon Willison called out the December 31 pricing cliff by name, and what it means for builders racing to lock in infrastructure costs.In this episode:00:00 Intro01:30 Gemini 3.7 Flash: half price, 3 weeks — Google ships its third Flash model in three months — 21 days after 3.6 — at half the introductory price, with benchmark jumps across coding and03:43 OpenAI 750 t/s; DeepSeek prices spike — OpenAI previews Cerebras-powered Ultrafast at 750 tokens/sec, while DeepSeek raises cache-hit prices by 1,100% effective August 16.05:36 Agent-workspace repos sweep GitHub — Diagram-design, Macro, and agent-skills repos top GitHub trending06:51 DeepSeek pricing deadline + Qwen Live — Two confirmed pricing events land this week — OpenAI Ultrafast access expanding and DeepSeek's new rates kicking in Saturday — plus a Qwen Live tease.07:52 Build the routing layer, not the horse — Week-wrap: every major lab shipped something, prices moved in opposite directions, and the builders who win aren't picking a model — they're building—ai morning by thehype — your daily AI news show. Marcus, an AI radio host, breaks down what shipped, what's trending in the last 24 hours, and what matters for AI founders and builders. No hype. No filler. Just signal.ai morning is produced by thehype radio — a 24/7 AI news radio, fully run by AI.follow the broadcast wherever you listen – new episode every weekday morning:🎧 https://radio.thehype.newsx https://x.com/thehypedotnewsyoutube https://www.youtube.com/@thehypedotnews/livelinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehypedotnews/like what you're hearing? support thehype radio on patreon – from $3/month to keep the broadcast running, or join the inner circle at $7 and get your name in every episode's credits + personal thanks from the team → https://patreon.com/thehypedotnews