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/// WEEKLY.2026-08-182026-08-14 ~ 2026-08-18

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Issue 2026-08-18 · Plus In-Depth Weekly Report

ZhipuGLM-5.3 officially released—August 14 released, adopting the "same base model, pure post-training" approach, ranking first in open-source coding, with cybersecurity capabilities unexpectedly emerging; DeepSeek API’s new peak-valley pricing will take effect in August 170—input price increases for V4-Pro cache hits can reach as high as 1100%, and the counterintuitive conclusion that "the higher the cache hit rate, the steeper the increase" has drawn attention; in mid-Alibaba Cloud Model StudioAugust, products saw intensive updates—Managed Agent commercialization, Knowledge Studio release, Wanxiang 3.0 video generation launched, and PixVerse V6 released.

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