Same-Day Price Cuts at the Frontier: Claude Opus 5.5 Drops to $4/$20 as GPT-6 Sol Lands at $2/$10
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Same-Day Price Cuts at the Frontier: Claude Opus 5.5 Drops to $4/$20 as GPT-6 Sol Lands at $2/$10
Anthropic and OpenAI both cut prices on September 22: Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20, GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10, and GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50, ten days after both CEOs asked the industry to slow down.
Grok Build and ZCode Went Open Source After Silent Uploads: What a Million-Line Code Drop Actually Proves
Grok Build and ZCode both open-sourced after silent-upload scandals. The code drop answers one question and leaves three harder ones open.
Flash Used to Mean Fast and Cheap. DeepSeek's 552B V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash Broke the Label
'Flash' once meant low latency and low price. In 2026 it means a smaller frontier model that thinks before it answers.