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Gemini 4 Argon Ships With a 1M Context and a Dec. 1 Bill
Google's Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on the Intelligence Index with a unified 1M window, while a 62K-token output habit and a Dec. 1 price hike loom.
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Muse Wonder and Wonder Full Put Meta Back at the Frontier
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12. Full ties for second on Artificial Analysis at max effort, but only Muse Code subscribers can use it.
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Claude Haiku 5.5: Ten Times Cheaper, Until Prompts Pass 100K Tokens
Anthropic's small model costs a tenth as much per token as Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens. Effort settings and token counts set the real bill.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5: Half the Token Price, but Effort Sets the Bill
Sonnet 5.5 nears Opus 5.5 at half the token price, but outside tests show effort settings drive the real bill. It is the first Sonnet with cyber safeguards.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Takes the Top Spot and Costs Less Than Opus 5
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 leads an independent index, costs 20% less per token than Opus 5, and is the first Opus to launch with Claude's text watermark.
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Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash: Frontier Coding at Workhorse Cost
Google DeepMind debuts Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, delivering frontier coding and cybersecurity gains at $0.75 per million input tokens.
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Google Gemini 3.7 Flash Arrives: Thinking Modes and Halved Costs
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.7 Flash with customizable thinking controls, major coding benchmark leaps, and a 50% price cut through 2026.
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Claude Opus 5 Aims for the Daily Driver, Not the Frontier
Anthropic's Opus 5 costs the same as Opus 4.8 and half of Fable 5 — and it is the fifth frontier model to ship in a little over two weeks.