Open models take the routine work, says Gartner. In a new research note, analysts Mark Petty and Raymond Paquet argue that nine in 10 enterprise agent workflow steps are routine, that open weight models handle them at parity for a quarter of the price of the cheapest closed model and as little as a twentieth of the cost of running a frontier model on every step, and that by 2030 some 90 percent of enterprise operational agent workflow steps will execute on open weight models. Their strategic point is control rather than cost: workflow history stays inside the enterprise perimeter, and the valuable layer becomes the harness that routes work between models.
Raspberry Pi raised prices again, barely a month after the last round. The 16GB Pi 5 rises by 80 dollars to 385 dollars, more than three times its 120 dollar launch price of January 2025, after increases of 25 dollars in December, 60 dollars in February and 100 dollars in April. Chief executive Eben Upton blamed a lack of alternative supply for 16GB DRAM compounded by other component shortages, and repeated that the increases are intended to be temporary. The 16GB Compute Module 5 variants rise by 40 dollars. The company reported record first half results in September, with revenue up 90 percent to 256.9 million dollars.
Qualcomm set out its AI inference data centre ambitions. The Next Platform reported the company’s push into data centre inference with its HBC memory architecture and AI250 products, extending Qualcomm’s argument that inference, not training, is where cost per token will be decided, and that memory bandwidth near the accelerator is the binding constraint. The move puts Qualcomm in the same contest as FuriosaAI, whose funded production ramp is a full story today.
Telia and Ericsson have launched 6G field trials in Sweden, Datacenter Dynamics reported, an early operator and vendor test programme for the next mobile generation while 5G monetisation remains the industry’s open question.
Tract is expanding into the United Kingdom with a planned 500 megawatt data centre campus in Durham, Datacenter Dynamics reported, continuing the US developer’s move into European markets where power and land remain obtainable at scale.
SM+ has launched a data centre in Jakarta, Indonesia, Datacenter Dynamics reported, adding capacity in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing digital markets.
Tachyum has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy, Tom’s Hardware reported. The company spent years promoting its Prodigy universal processor, which promised to combine CPU, GPU and AI workloads in a single chip, without bringing it to market; the future of the Prodigy intellectual property is unknown as the bankruptcy begins.