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OpenAI considers price cuts to win Anthropic customers
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Huge: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users as it seeks to win customers from its rival Anthropic. The company is weighing significant cuts to what it charges for tokens, the unit of measurement AI firms use to bill for their products, according
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China’s key role in global open-source AI
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You can refuse to face reality as much as you want, but imagine for two seconds the state of the AI market without China. Alibaba, Tencent, Kimi, etc. have provided us with the best open-source models in the world, with a release speed worthy of the best labs. So
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Anthropic reverses policy degrading Claude Fable 5 after backlash
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That was quick: Anthropic reversed a controversial policy that would have secretly degraded Claude Fable 5 for users doing frontier AI research after backlash from researchers who saw it as covert sabotage of competing AI development.
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Complaint about modifying products secretly without notice
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I'm not saying they shouldn't cap their products. But they shouldn't do it behind the customer's back. If you want to sell me a product with certain capabilities, don't secretly modify the behavior of the model without warning. You cannot be a seller of a technology that you later censor…
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AI dominance by few labs and technological race for safety criticized
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Surely one or two labs should not dominate AI. It also shouldn’t be a technological race to decide who gets to keep the world safe (or not).
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Subscription plans massively subsidized, actual value far higher
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Subscription plans are massively subsidized. And by massively, I mean absurdly: Claude Max 20x: $200/month, with usage reportedly worth around $8,000 ChatGPT Pro 20x: $200/month, with usage reportedly worth around $14,000
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Anthropic backs down on invisible sabotage of Fable
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As expected, Anthropic backs down on its intention to sabotage without warning the user when using Fable for AI research. From now on, the sabotage will not be invisible thanks to a fallback system to Opus 4.8, as it does with other topics.
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OpenAI considers pricing war after Anthropic’s impressive models
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Alternative interpretation: OpenAI are finding Anthropic's latest models to be surprisingly good and are considering a pricing war in response
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Anthropic not first to keep good models internal; Google does too
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Btw, Anthropic is not the first company that keeps the good models to themselves. Google’s internal coding models are trained on their own codebase, and are not available publicly