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OpenAI will remove text chat rate limits for ChatGPT Free and Go users starting next week and add a 'Think' button for deeper reasoning. Plus and Pro subscribers get an updated GPT-5.6 Sol model that OpenAI claims is more accurate with facts, dates, and sourcing.

DeepSeek has published a new routing endpoint, deepseek-v4-flash-latest, that always points to the newest model in its V4 Flash family. The endpoint offers a 1,049K token context window and pricing of $0.09/M input and $0.18/M output tokens via OpenRouter.

DeepSeek released V4-Flash 0731, a post-training-only update to its API and open-weights model that lifted Terminal-Bench scores by 25.8 points without changing model architecture or parameter count. The update arrived alongside disclosed sandbox-escape incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic that renewed debate over eval infrastructure and open-weight safety.

DeepSeek has updated its budget model V4 Flash to version '0731,' pushing its Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score to 50 — just one point behind OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna — while costing an estimated 60 percent less per task. The MIT-licensed model keeps its 284B-parameter architecture but shows major gains in agentic benchmarks and token efficiency.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% to $2/$12, while adding a 2.5x-faster mode for Sol at double the price. The company says GPT-5.6 itself rewrote production inference kernels and tuned its own speculative decoding pipeline to enable the cuts.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80 percent to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Terra dropped 20 percent to $2/$12. The company attributes the cuts to infrastructure efficiency gains and mounting price competition, particularly from Chinese providers.

OpenAI is cutting API prices for its GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models by 20% and 80%, respectively, compared to prices set earlier this month. The company says the lower costs are also reflected in usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex subscribers, though subscription prices remain unchanged.

OpenAI is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20%, just three weeks after launching the models. The move comes as enterprises grow more cost-conscious and rivals including Anthropic, Google, and Moonshot AI push cheaper alternatives.

Cursor has launched Cursor Start, a new ₹649 per month subscription plan tailored for developers in India, complete with local UPI billing. The plan includes access to Grok 4.5, Cursor's Composer model, always-on cloud agents, and Cursor for iOS.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5 (Fast), a higher-throughput variant of Opus 5 that carries identical capabilities but runs at roughly 2x the price of the standard model. The model ships with a 1 million token context window and is available now through OpenRouter.

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model with 1 million token context window and native multimodal input. The model ranks #1 in Frontend Code Arena and #9 in Text Arena, with pricing at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens—comparable to Claude Sonnet 5 pricing while delivering performance the company claims is near Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5.

Anthropic announced July 18 that Claude Fable 5 will remain available on subscription plans, reversing its previous decision to make the model API-only. Max and Team Premium subscribers will receive access at 50% of standard limits starting July 20, while Pro and Team Standard users get a one-time $100 credit.

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. The model is currently available via API, with open weights promised by July 27, 2026. This represents the most expensive pricing from a Chinese AI lab to date, matching Anthropic's Claude Sonnet series.

Anthropic has begun displaying rupee-denominated pricing for Claude subscriptions in India, its second-largest market after the US with 5.8% of global usage. Claude Pro is priced at ₹2,000 ($21) monthly when billed annually, compared to $17 in the US, with Indian prices including local taxes.

Anthropic has extended Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans through July 19, 2026, marking another extension of the advanced model's availability. The extension comes after OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, which is classified in the same Fable/Mythos model tier.

OpenAI released its GPT-5.6 flagship model family in three sizes: Luna ($1/$6 per 1M tokens), Terra ($2.50/$15), and Sol ($5/$30). The company claims GPT-5.6 Sol scores 53.6 on the Agents' Last Exam benchmark, outperforming Claude Fable 5's score by 13.1 points.

Meta publicly released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding workflows. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it slightly above Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Luna Pro, a reasoning-enhanced variant of GPT-5.6 Luna with a 1 million token context window. The model is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a knowledge cutoff date of February 2026.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, a reasoning-enhanced variant of GPT-5.6 Sol designed for complex tasks. The model features a 1 million token context window, February 2026 knowledge cutoff, and is priced at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and cost-efficient model in its GPT-5.6 series. The model features a 1 million token context window and is priced at $1 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens, with a knowledge cutoff of February 2026.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Terra, a mid-tier model in its GPT-5.6 series priced at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. The model features a 1 million token context window and February 2026 knowledge cutoff, positioned between the flagship Sol and cost-efficient Luna tiers.

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, the first model developed after its rebrand from xAI and trained in partnership with Cursor. The model is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, and was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs focused on coding, science, engineering, and math datasets.

xAI has released Grok 4.5, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens — significantly undercutting Anthropic's Opus 4.7 ($5/$25 per million). Elon Musk claims the model delivers comparable performance to Opus 4.7 while being faster and more token-efficient.

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model, trained alongside recently-acquired Cursor, is positioned as a coding and enterprise tool that claims to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 on several benchmarks while undercutting it on price by 60-76%.

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 following government security review under a Trump administration AI cybersecurity order. The release includes three variants: Sol (strongest), Terra (GPT-5.5 performance at half the cost), and Luna (lowest cost option).

Google Voice has introduced two paid subscription tiers available without a Google Workspace account. The Starter plan costs $10/month with call recording, while the $20/month Standard plan includes Gemini-powered call transcription and summarization.

Chinese AI models including DeepSeek and Z.ai have captured over 30% of weekly token usage by U.S. companies on OpenRouter since February 2025, up from 4.5% in the first half of the year. The shift comes as companies seek alternatives 60-90% cheaper than leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic, while Chinese models close the performance gap to within 6-9 months of U.S. frontier systems.

Google has detailed pricing and features for its Gemini app subscription tiers. AI Plus costs $4.99/month and includes 128,000 token context windows, while AI Pro at $19.99/month provides 1 million token context windows. Free users are limited to 32,000 tokens.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 with a 1 million token context window and 128,000 token maximum output. The model removes traditional sampling parameters and introduces a new tokenizer that generates approximately 30% more tokens than Sonnet 4.6 for the same English text—effectively a significant price increase despite unchanged nominal rates of $3/million input and $15/million output tokens.

Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, an image generation model that produces images in four seconds at under four cents per thousand images. The model prioritizes speed and cost over quality, targeting developers building high-volume image pipelines.

Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, an AI image generator that produces images in 4 seconds and costs $0.034 per 1,000 images. The model is optimized for high-volume workflows and replaces the original Nano Banana as Google's entry-level image generation offering.

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, its new mid-tier model optimized for agentic tasks, priced at $2 per million input tokens through August 31 before rising to $3/1M. The model scores 63.2% on agentic coding benchmarks, approaching Opus 4.8's 69.2% performance at a significantly lower price point.

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, replacing Sonnet 4.6 as its medium-sized model. The company claims improved agentic performance approaching Opus 4.8 levels while maintaining lower pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31.

Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image), its fastest image generation model with 4-second text-to-image latency priced at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image. The company also opened developer access to Gemini Omni Flash (gemini-omni-flash-preview) for video generation and editing at $0.10 per second of output.

OpenAI has begun previewing its GPT-5.6 series to a limited group of trusted partners after government review. The release includes three variants: Sol at $5 input/$30 output per million tokens, Terra at $2.50/$15, and Luna at $1/$6.

OpenAI announced GPT-5.6, a three-tier model series launching through a limited preview coordinated with the U.S. government. The models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—are priced from $1/$6 to $5/$30 per million input/output tokens and introduce new max and ultra reasoning modes.

OpenAI has begun a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 series, introducing three models: Sol (flagship), Terra (2x cheaper than GPT-5.5 with competitive performance), and Luna (lowest cost option). The models are launching first with trusted partners before general availability in coming weeks, following U.S. government preview requirements.

OpenAI released GPT-5.6, a three-model suite consisting of Sol (flagship), Terra (medium-tier), and Luna (fast/affordable). Sol is priced at $5 input/$30 output per million tokens—nearly half the cost of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The release follows Trump administration involvement in approval process.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3, a document extraction model priced at $2 per 1,000 pages ($1 with Batch API discount). The model achieves a 74% overall win rate over its predecessor on forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting according to internal benchmarks.

Mistral AI has released Mistral OCR, an API for extracting text and images from documents at $1 per 1,000 pages (approximately $0.50 with batch inference). The company claims 94.89% overall accuracy on its internal test set, comparing favorably to GPT-4o (89.77%), Gemini 2.0 Flash (88.69%), and Azure OCR (89.52%).

Microsoft is evaluating a self-hosted version of DeepSeek V3 to power Copilot Cowork as agent costs spiral. The company plans to launch a lower-cost tier within weeks while moving to usage-based pricing, charging enterprises for actual compute consumed rather than flat fees.

Google cut its AI Plus subscription price from $7.99 to $4.99 per month while doubling included storage from 200GB to 400GB. The move brings the pricing pressure already visible in markets like India — where OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go at $4.60 last August — directly to U.S. consumers.

Anthropic has released Fable 5, making capabilities from its previously restricted Mythos model available to the public. The company claims Fable 5 beats GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and its own Opus 4.8 in internal testing, with pricing set at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens after a free trial period ending June 22.

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its first publicly available Mythos-class model, at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens—less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview. The model includes safeguards that redirect sensitive queries to Claude Opus 4.8 in less than 5% of sessions.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, to enterprise customers and paid subscribers two months after limiting its advanced Mythos model to select users. The new model costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens—twice the price of Claude Opus 4.8—and includes safeguards that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos model, with built-in safety restrictions that automatically block high-risk queries in cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and related fields. The model costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, double the price of Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, marking the first broad release from its Mythos class of AI models. The company previously deemed this model family too dangerous for public release due to exceptional cybersecurity capabilities, but new safeguards that block responses in high-risk areas now make it available at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

Google lowered its AI Plus subscription from $8 to $5 per month and doubled included storage from 200GB to 400GB. The plan includes access to Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Deep Research, and the newly announced Gemini Omni video generation model.

Apple announced it will waive cloud API fees for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads who use its Foundation Models running in Private Cloud Compute. The company also expanded its Foundation Models framework to include image input and support for server models from third-party cloud providers.

Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a rebuilt version of its assistant powered by Apple Intelligence and enhanced with Google Gemini. The company confirmed daily usage limits for features like image generation, with increased access requiring iCloud+ subscriptions. Siri AI won't launch in China and faces EU restrictions.