EP20 - Everything Doubles: Google's Prepay Cutover, Gemini's Silent 2x, and the Price OpenAI Won't Publish
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Episode EP20 - Everything Doubles: Google's Prepay Cutover, Gemini's Silent 2x, and the Price OpenAI Won't Publish
Three AI vendors changed a price this week and every change was exactly 2.0x. Google's Gemini Flash models doubleon January 1, 2027 — published 32 times on the pricing page, mentioned zero times in the changelog. DeepSeek movesto peak/off-peak on Sunday, where even the "discount" tier is up to 6x today's price. OpenAI shipped a tier with nopublished rate at all. Plus: Google is force-migrating every Gemini API developer to prepay billing, where creditsexpire at twelve months and forfeited money never appears as spend. Episode 20.
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