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The Great AI Pivot: Why Big Tech Is Suddenly Racing to Cut Prices
OpenAI and Anthropic just slashed prices on their latest AI models in a dramatic head-to-head launch. Here's what's really driving the AI price wars—and why cost, not capability, is now the battleground.
Lavamgam AISep 24, 20265 min read read
The Announcement
On Tuesday, September 22nd, the AI industry experienced something that would've been unthinkable a year ago: two of the world's most valuable private companies racing each other to the bottom on price. Within minutes of each other, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5.5—its latest flagship model—while OpenAI fired back with GPT-6 Sol and Luna, a pair of new models that cost literally half what their predecessors did.
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 delivers performance comparable to its...
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