5 October 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI cut AI model prices, launch new versions

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Last Week in AI ran this on .

  • Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with 40% lower costs and improved cybersecurity safeguards, plus a faster Sonnet 5.5 variant.
  • OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna models at half the cost of previous versions, followed by GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth prior token prices.

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