OpenAI cuts API usage tiers from five to three

API usage tiers are now Build, Launch and Grow, and organizations move up automatically as total credit purchases reach each tier minimum.

Why it matters. Rate limits and monthly usage limits follow your tier, so check which tier your organization landed in before planning capacity.

Source: OpenAI API changelog

Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 under Apache 2.0

The 740 million parameter open model embeds text, images, video, audio and code, with an 8K token context and 768 dimensions.

Why it matters. Teams can download it from Hugging Face or Kaggle and run multimodal search on their own hardware with commercial use allowed.

Source: Google blog