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Flipkart To Launch Bengaluru Food Delivery by Mid-August on 10–11% Commission

Flipkart is set to enter India's online food delivery market by mid-August, beginning with a pilot rollout in Bengaluru and a restaurant commission model of 10–11%. The Walmart-owned e-commerce company is betting that lower commissions can help it attract restaurant partners in a market long dominated by Swiggy and Zomato.

This latest expansion is beyond e-commerce and quick commerce and comes at a time when restaurants are increasingly questioning the economics of existing food delivery platforms. Rather than competing first on consumer discounts, Flipkart appears to be using merchant economics as its primary entry strategy.

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Flipkart's reported commission structure is significantly lower than the 25–35% commissions that restaurants typically pay Swiggy and Zomato, depending on commercial arrangements and promotional spending.

The company has reportedly begun onboarding restaurants across Bengaluru and plans to leverage the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). The pilot will also help...

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GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens

After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3, the new frontier open source language model from Chinese startup z.ai, has now hit the application programming interface (API) — allowing developers the ability to build atop it

Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2

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Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In

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GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens

Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2

Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In

5 TVs under ₹55,000 to see where the real differences were before buying your next smart TV