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Anthropic's New Claude Models Are Cheaper and Less Likely to Refuse Your Questions
Two updated AI models from Anthropic promise better performance at lower cost, with fewer frustrating refusals and a new privacy option for business customers.
Salesforce and Anthropic team up as customers get billed by the sip
A new Claude-powered product and strong quarterly numbers lifted Salesforce's share price, but the company's credit-based pricing model is drawing fresh scrutiny from analysts who warn of hidden cost spikes.
OpenAI's product chief explains who ChatGPT Work is for, and what it costs to keep it cheap
Thibault Sottiaux leads all of OpenAI's core products. He talked us through the push to bring AI agents to everyday workers, the 'magic' design philosophy, and why he thinks prices will keep falling.
DeepSeek's V4 Flash aces the leaderboards but stumbles on real work, then raises its prices
The AI model everyone called a bargain just got more expensive. And new testing shows its real-world performance is patchier than its benchmark scores suggest.
Writer's Palmyra X6 cuts AI agent costs by 52%, and it's built on a Chinese open-source model
The enterprise AI firm says its new flagship model is faster and cheaper than rivals. But the base it was built on is raising eyebrows.
OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals win over cost-conscious customers
A price war is breaking out at the top of the AI industry. American labs are cutting what they charge for their models, and the trigger is clear: cheaper tools from China are pulling customers away.
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its predecessor
The new model brings measurable gains in coding and document reading, and arrives with a cut-price introductory rate as Google feels pressure from cheaper rivals.
Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.
Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.
A Cheap Chinese AI Model Is Making Coders Rethink Their Bills
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 costs a fraction of Anthropic's top models and handles real work. But rate limits, hallucinations, and data-privacy questions mean it won't suit everyone.
Google Just Changed How It Counts Your Gemini AI Usage. Here Is What You Actually Get Now.
Google switched from counting requests to measuring computing power. That sounds technical, but it has a practical effect: you may run out of AI credits faster than you expect, and the new rules are deliberately vague.
Anthropic Brings Local Rupee Pricing to Claude in India
India is Claude's second-biggest market worldwide. Now users there can finally pay in their own currency, though one key payment method is still missing.