
Embedding Models Pricing - June 2026
Embedding API cost comparison: voyage-4-lite, OpenAI 3-small, Jina v3, and Amazon Titan V2 tie at $0.02/MTok. Gemini Embedding 2 now GA, Cohere Embed 4 dimensions corrected to 1,536 default.
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Embedding API cost comparison: voyage-4-lite, OpenAI 3-small, Jina v3, and Amazon Titan V2 tie at $0.02/MTok. Gemini Embedding 2 now GA, Cohere Embed 4 dimensions corrected to 1,536 default.

Paul Meade, Apple's VP for the Vision Pro and smart glasses, is joining OpenAI's io hardware division - the most senior hardware engineering defection yet in a two-year talent war that is reshaping who builds the next computing platform.

Sam Altman has rejected any sub-trillion IPO valuation as a nonstarter, pushing the listing to 2027 while SoftBank takes a 13% hit and SpaceX's stumbling debut makes the wait look smarter.

The intelligence agencies of five allied nations issued a joint statement warning that frontier AI will fundamentally transform offensive cybersecurity within months, not years - and that most organizations are not ready.

The Trump administration is requiring OpenAI to vet every GPT-5.6 customer individually before granting access, citing cybersecurity capabilities that rival Anthropic's restricted Mythos model.

Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, and two more Gemini engineers left Google DeepMind for OpenAI and Anthropic in a single week, sending Alphabet stock tumbling nearly 10% from its May peak.

Cerebras beat Q1 revenue estimates with 92% growth but a dramatic margin guidance cut sent shares down 20%, erasing nearly all gains since its landmark semiconductor IPO.

OpenAI's Sora 2 generates physics-accurate video with synchronized audio from text or images, available API-only until its September 24, 2026 sunset.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom ASIC on TSMC's 3nm node with eight HBM stacks, targeting 50% cheaper inference than current GPU-based alternatives.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber found CVE-2026-8390 in Firefox's WebAssembly engine before Pwn2Own Berlin - five of six registered exploit entries withdrew.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber is a cybersecurity-specialized fine-tune of GPT-5.5, restricted to vetted defenders through the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and rated 85.6% on the CyberGym benchmark.

At G7 in Evian, Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis pitched world leaders on a US-led international AI governance body, chip trade restrictions on China, and controlled access to frontier models.