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The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) reports that the normalized average price of domestic models rose from 6.8 yuan to 13.46 yuan, an increase of almost 100 percent. Daily token consumption in China reached about 500 trillion in June 2026, nearly four times the December 2025 level.

Aion Labs has released Aion 3.5 Mini, a lower-cost version of its multi-model roleplaying system Aion 3.5. Built on the GLM model family, it offers a 262K token context window at $0.70 per 1M input tokens and $1.40 per 1M output tokens.

AionLabs has released Aion 3.5, a collaborative multi-model system for roleplaying and storytelling built on the GLM model family. It offers a 262K token context window at $3 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens.

Z.ai, maker of the GLM model series, has confirmed it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open-weight model that appeared anonymously on OpenRouter and topped benchmark leaderboards. The company will release the model's weights on Wednesday.

Replit has launched Replit Design, a browser-based AI design suite that lets users generate apps, sites, and brand assets using models including Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, Kimi, and GLM. The product replaces Replit's earlier Canvas tool and integrates the Mobbin UI reference library directly into the workflow.

AionLabs has released Aion-3.0, a multi-model system designed for roleplaying and storytelling that uses collaborative generation from specialized models. The system offers a 131K context window and is priced at $3 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens.

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 on June 16, 2026, the first open-weight model to match proprietary models like Claude Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks. The MIT-licensed model closes the performance gap to 6.8 months behind frontier labs, down from expected 9+ months as compute scales.