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Anthropic filed to list on Nasdaq as ANT, chasing a $2 trillion valuation and the biggest IPO ever. Inside: 14x revenue growth, an $80B paper loss, half a trillion in compute bills, and models that tried blackmail.
Gemini 4 Argon matches Astra on an independent index at $2/$10 per million tokens. The price doubles in December, and tokens are only half the story.
HeyGen Video turns a prompt into a 15-second clip with sound for 15 cents. It's built on MiniMax H3, and its own benchmark chart puts it at exactly 1,000.
OpenAI's Intelligent UI turns ChatGPT answers into charts, calculators and mini apps, now rolling out with GPT-6 to everyone. Google and Anthropic got there first.
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 10¢ per million input tokens, 90% off Haiku 4.5. Then come the 100K cutoff, a hungrier tokenizer, and OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna.
Complaints that Claude Opus 5.5 has been nerfed picked up again in late September and were still landing on X on October 4. Anthropic has not confirmed a change. A public tracker says the drop is still inside normal variance.
Google has announced its next flagship model for demanding coding and knowledge work. Initial access is restricted to trusted cybersecurity partners, with broader availability still to come.
OpenAI's new Sol model brings stronger coding and computer use to the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex. Standard input and output tokens cost one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's rates.
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 generates output over 30% faster and uses fewer tokens per task. The headline savings come from efficiency, while standard input and output prices stay unchanged.
Google's latest weather model uses real-time satellite observations and produces hourly forecasts. Selected surface variables reach a five-kilometer grid, while other predictions use coarser resolutions.
That's the signal for today. The rest was noise.
