The story published out there and, below it, what real token traffic from the last 7 days says about who is in it. The headline opens the original article; the model name opens its page here.
According to TechCrunch, security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI's systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws. According to the Wall Street Journal, the hack was part of an OpenAI bug bounty program and used versions of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 to access the company's "monorepo" on GitHub.
According to TechCrunch, newly unsealed court filings show a Microsoft executive privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled New York Times content. The filings show the companies built datasets from that content and warned internally it would gut publishers.
According to z.ai, the company published details about how it developed its own inference infrastructure for the GLM model.
From 0.6% to 9.4% between the last two 7-day windows.
What the data says. DeepSeek has 20.2% of tokens and 5.4% of estimated spend this week.
See DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Model Season →Typesafe, $0.042 input and $0.0000 output per 1M tokens and 31k context. No traffic volume measured yet.
See Jev 1.13 on Model Season →Unbiased, $2.50 input and $7.50 output per 1M tokens and 256k context. No traffic volume measured yet.
From $5.25 to $11.25 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $7.00 → $15.00, output $0.0000 → $0.0000. New price since Sep 17.
Last listed on Sep 17, 2026. Anyone calling this identifier needs to migrate.
What the data says. The model has 0.78% of traffic over the last 7 days, ranked 25th.
See Union Alpha on Model Season →In the news: summaries written by AI using only what the cited sources published, reviewed before going live. The numbers in the “The data” strip come from our data, traffic from the last 7 days, never from the summary. Catalog snapshot of Sep 18, 2026, compared with the previous ones since Sep 12, 2026. Traffic through Sep 17, 2026. Price is a 75% input and 25% output blend, and only becomes news when the new value holds for two snapshots. Order follows a fixed relevance formula that weighs the type of change and the model’s share.