The cost frontiers, as expected, show an upward and rightward shift, meaning we have a more expensive and notably superior model (the low of Fable remains well above the x-high of Opus 4.8)
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Power shifts to infrastructure in compute-constrained world
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Follow the signal: we are in a compute-constrained world.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 9 juin 2026
And that means power doesn’t sit with the models. It sits with the infrastructure.
Most frontier labs don’t own the means of producing Intelligence. They rent it.
A handful of companies provide compute that everyone… pic.twitter.com/iHIEK7ISBYFollow the signal: we are in a compute-constrained world. And that means power doesn’t sit with the models. It sits with the infrastructure. Most frontier labs don’t own the means of producing Intelligence. They rent it. A handful of companies provide compute that everyone
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Fable 5 / Mythos 5 most capable AI, twice Opus price, legal benchmark issue
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It’s about twice as expensive as Opus, but Fable 5 / Mythos 5 is the most capable AI on the planet (Also, why does every model seem to suck on the legal agent benchmark?)
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Model pricing: soon 100x more expensive?
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Pricing. According to reports, roughly double the current pricing levels of Claude Opus — down from the 5x Opus suggested by Mythos's initial pricing. Next time, they'll announce that the new model is 100x more expensive, so we are
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New model at ultra-competitive price, half the price of Claude Mythos Preview
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As was whispered, it launches with an ultra-competitive price! – $10/Million input tokens – $50/Million output tokens That's less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview, which was frankly expensive.
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LangSmith: costs, trends, quality, latency, and full course
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LangSmith can help you track costs, uncover trends with trace analysis, and monitor quality and latency.
— LangChain (@LangChain) 9 juin 2026
We created a course that walks you through the full stack. pic.twitter.com/8X6T7w6jS2LangSmith helps you track costs, discover trends through trace analysis, and monitor quality and latency. We have created a course that guides you through the full stack.
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Claude Fable to cost twice as much as Opus soon
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ANTHROPIC : Claude Fable (Mythos) is about to cost twice as much as Claude Opus according to The Information. Soon
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PegaWorld announces zero token charges for agentic AI
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Look at the logo behind Alan Trefler… "Token Co$t" with a line through it. For me, that was one of the biggest announcements at #PegaWorld yesterday. For the first time, an enterprise software company is offering agentic AI with zero token charges. Clients pay a flat price per
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Siri runs on custom Google Gemini model costing $1 billion annually
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5/ Siri runs on a custom Google Gemini model, reported at around $1 billion a year.
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AI destroys autism’s competitive edge in tech careers
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AI is obliterating autism as an absolute competitive advantage in tech careers.