Has @AnthropicAI completely given up on making API usage reasonably-priced? Following the token-usage changes recently they announced various updates to *subscription* usage to make it more reasonable. But they've done NOTHING for API users. The cost is insane at this point.
MARKET TRENDS
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GPT-5 Pro models leading single-shot performance
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Interesting that the GPT-5 Pro series models have consistently been the best models for single-shot attempts at the hardest problems since last summer. There has been no real competition in all that time.
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Marcus warns OpenAI could be AI’s WeWork, Anthropic’s spike fleeting
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have been warning since 2023 that OpenAI might be the WeWork of AI, but also beware that Anthropic’s quarter may be a one-off trading on a brief and already dying romance with tokenmaxxing and a big one time subsidy from SpaceX.
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GPU prices drop, tokenmaxxing dead, RoI missing
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H100 price: down
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 28 mai 2026
H200 price: down
tokenmaxxing: dead
RoI for most customers: AWOL
you can’t defy gravity forever pic.twitter.com/ta23saCiLkH100 price: down
H200 price: down tokenmaxxing: dead
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Anthropic Acceleration: Model Release Cycle Shortening Trend
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Anthropic released the next version sooner than I thought – the trend is accelerating – from 50-70 days before, down to 42 days since Opus 4.7
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MIT Sloan Industrial AI Series: Execution to Impact
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Part 3 of MIT Sloan's Industrial AI series coming soon: 'From Execution to Impact' – measuring and sustaining financial and operational value from industrial AI at scale. Partner content with @AI4ProdOutcomes. #Infinite_iiot pic.twitter.com/dSW6SXvj4m
— Lucian Fogoros (@fogoros) 28 mai 2026Part 3 of MIT Sloan's Industrial AI series coming soon: 'From Execution to Impact' – measuring and sustaining financial and operational value from industrial AI at scale. Partner content with @AI4ProdOutcomes
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Five Emerging Themes in AI Research Report
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Five themes emerged in our research: developer acceleration, the economics of intelligence, the power user gap, the rise of context, and the shift to automation. Read the full report here:
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Microsoft Launches Homegrown AI Models as Cheaper Alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic
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Microsoft is launching homegrown AI models at Build next week, positioned as cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic. Buried in the reporting: relying on Anthropic's Claude forced Microsoft to raise GitHub Copilot prices and cap how much developers could actually use it.
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Snowflake Cortex Code: Packaged Software’s AI Future
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The software analysts have been desperate for some company to offer up a thing they could point to that says that packaged software will survive and maybe even thrive in the AI future. The Snowflake “Cortex Code,” dubbed CoCo, has handed the bulls what they wanted. It is being
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Major Firms Pull Back From AI After Massive Losses
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From Starbucks To Pizza Hut, Microsoft & Uber: Major Firms Pull Back From AI After Massive Losses. https://
youtu.be/dGRbKGfbdzo?si
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… via @YouTube #AI #artificialintelligence #tech @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA