news: Three frontier AI models launch in 48 hours, igniting price war
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SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on Wednesday at $2/$6 per million tokens, with Elon Musk calling it "Opus-class" but cheaper and faster than Anthropic's models.
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OpenAI made GPT-5.6 generally available Thursday in three tiers, with its cheapest Luna variant matching Grok 4.5's output price at $6 per million tokens.
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Meta debuted Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid AI model, at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens — the lowest price among the three flagship releases.
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Not even the least bit interested, TBH.
I’m not trying to vibe code entire apps, but Xiaomi’s coding plan is dirt cheap and good enough for me, especially when mixed with GLM. Plus I can run base MiMo 2.5 locally when I want privacy and custom sampling over speed.