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- Kiro for students expands free year and credits to 41 more universities
Kiro says its student program now covers 41 more universities. Eligible students get one free year with 1,000 credits each month and paid features such as premium models.
- MiniMax Code offers unlimited M3.1 Flash through Oct. 25 and 50% off a first month of M Plan through Oct. 31
MiniMax says every MiniMax Code subscriber can use M3.1 Flash with no usage caps through Oct. 25 at 23:59 (UTC+8). New subscribers and M Plan upgraders get 50% off their first month through Oct. 31 at 23:59 (UTC+8), with standard pricing from the second month.
- Cognition launches Devin in Pylon to cut support ticket fix times, with $15,000 in credits for new Devin customers
Cognition introduced Devin in Pylon, an integration aimed at reducing median time to fix (MTTF) for issues raised through the Pylon support platform. New Devin customers get $15,000 in credits.
- Infron adds Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 at 25% off Vertex pricing and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite
Infron says Google's Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is now available for text-to-image and image-to-image at $1.125 per million input tokens and $22.50 per million output tokens, 25% off Google Vertex pricing. It also added xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite for text-to-video and image-to-video.
- Infron Batch offers DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at up to 80% off
Infron said DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is up to 80% off on Infron Batch, priced at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens with a 1M-token context.
- MLH Global Hack Week offers free Cursor Pro redeem codes for Hacktoberfest registrants
Major League Hacking's Global Hack Week: Hacktoberfest (Oct 9–15, 2026) challenge page tells participants to redeem a free Cursor Pro account with a promo code emailed by the MLH team after registration, then manually upgrade to Pro under Billing & Invoices to use the credits. Registration alone does not activate Pro.
- Qwen3.8-Max, Qwen3.8-Flash and Wan3.0 are free for a week on GMI Cloud
Alibaba's Qwen team says a week of free access to Qwen3.8-Max, Qwen3.8-Flash and Wan3.0 is now live on GMI Cloud.
- Elon Musk posts a short Grok Imagine promo
Elon Musk posted a brief 'Grok Imagine' promo with a media link and no further text.
- Infron offers discounts on Gemini 3.8 Flash and Kimi K3 alongside Claude Opus 5 and 5.5
Inference router Infron promoted pricing on premium models through its single API: Claude Opus 5 and 5.5 for complex reasoning and coding, 25% off Gemini 3.8 Flash, and 50% off Kimi K3 on selected routes. Infron says it lets users pick across multiple providers for more control over cost and performance.
- Anthropic offers startups a free year of Claude Team plus $1,000 in credits
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits, per TechCrunch. The company said it created the program because it believes the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on it.
- Eleven v4 free on ElevenCreative until October 12
ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 voice model is free on ElevenCreative until October 12, covering use cases from audiobook chapters to voiceover scripts, per the company's announcement.
- Infron runs 70% off DeepSeek models, easing to 60% on Oct 1
Infron, a DeepSeek API reseller, is running 70% off on its discounted DeepSeek models including V4 Pro 0813 and V4 Flash 0731, moving to 60% off on Oct 1, per its official X account. Infron reports 131.9M+ successful requests in 30 days across the five discounted models, with V4.1 Flash also discounted.