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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

AI Pricing Battle Intensifies as Anthropic and OpenAI Cut Costs with New Models

OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices for their latest AI models, with GPT-6 Sol and Luna 50% cheaper and Claude Opus 5.5 costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Anthropic and OpenAI have launched cheaper AI models as competition intensifies, highlighting lower costs alongside improvements in performance, factuality and capabilities.

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Claims Most Intelligent and Aligned AI Model Yet

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is positioned as the company's most intelligent and aligned frontier AI model yet, with claimed advances in coding, science, cybersecurity and computer use.

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest frontier AI model, claiming unprecedented capabilities across coding, mathematics, cybersecurity, science, computer use and personalized agentic task execution.

OpenAI Slows Down Astra Launch, Flags Risks Over Critical Cyber Capabilities

OpenAI ASTRA logo graphic used in coverage of the model’s delayed broader rollout over cybersecurity concerns.

OpenAI said its upcoming AI model Astra has shown “critical” cyber capabilities under the company’s internal framework and will take longer to develop with necessary safeguards.

OpenAI’s Model Astra Solves Ten Longstanding Mathematical Problems

OpenAI said the tokens needed to find the ten solutions would cost roughly $2,000 at its Sol API rates.

An internal version of OpenAI’s next major model produced solutions spanning high-dimensional geometry, coding theory, group theory, operator algebras, quantum complexity and lattice cryptography. None of the ten results has been independently verified.