OpenAI fires back: GPT-6 Sol at half price
Hours after Anthropic released Opus 5.5, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna with 50% price cuts — the AI price war is on.
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Hours after Anthropic released Opus 5.5, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna with 50% price cuts — the AI price war is on.
Ten days after Dario Amodei urged the industry to pace AI development, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 — beating GPT-6 Astra on six of eight benchmarks at 40% lower cost.
xAI releases Grok 4.7 at 2.1T params and $2/$6 pricing, but independent benchmarks show a 12-point coding gap with xAI's own claims.
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Elon Musk jumped straight from the delayed Grok 4.7 to Grok 4.8 — a 2.5-trillion-parameter model trained on a new C++ software stack, with pre-training finishing this week.
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