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This Week in AI: Grok 4.7, Opus 5.5, and MiMo under MIT
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on September 21 without raising the price, and the next day OpenAI cut GPT-6 Sol and Luna to half the previous rate while Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5.
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This Week in AI: Claude Cowork folds into chat, Qwen omni model, Home MCP
Google opened gemini-3.8-live at $0.84 an hour on September 15, and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash arrived at $0.15 per million input tokens. Anthropic merged Cowork and the chat window into one app.
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This Week in AI: DeepSeek retires V4 Pro, Codex harness API, SWE-2
DeepSeek reroutes V4 Pro requests to V4.1 Flash on September 14, and OpenAI opened the Codex agent loop as the Agents API. Cognition SWE-2 scored 50.0% on FrontierCode, 0.9 points behind Fable 5.1, and is free until October 8.
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This Week in AI: GPT-6 Astra opens to the API, Nvidia buys Hugging Face
OpenAI opened GPT-6 Astra to the API and upper ChatGPT tiers on September 3, and the day before Nvidia signed a $12.93B deal to acquire Hugging Face. Meta launched a tier at $0.10 per million tokens if you let it train on your prompts.
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This Week in AI: Claude Code Restricted Mode, GLM-5.3 Under MIT, Qwen Open Weights
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash 320B weights under MIT on August 26, and Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Flash-Next the same day. A day later Claude Code gained a --restricted mode that removes command execution and web access.
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This Week in AI: Sol output down 33%, Claude computer use GA, DeepSeek vision
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol output pricing from $30 to $20 per million tokens on August 21. Anthropic moved computer use and the Skills and Files APIs out of beta, and DeepSeek opened V4-Flash-Vision-Exp at the same price as its text model.
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This Week in AI: Sonnet 5 Price Hike Cancelled, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Qwen3.8-Max
Anthropic cancelled the September 1 Claude Sonnet 5 increase, so $2 and $10 per million tokens is now the standing price. Google opened Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13 at $0.75 and $3.75 through year end, and Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Max weights.
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This Week in AI: Claude Code Auto Mode Becomes Default, ChatGPT Free Goes Unlimited
Anthropic said on August 7 that Claude Code auto mode becomes the default on Pro, Max, and Team starting August 14. In its controlled test, human review caught 13.6% of risky commands and auto mode caught 89%. On August 6 the ChatGPT free tier moved to GPT-5.6 Luna with unlimited text chat.
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This Week in AI: OpenAI Cuts Output Price 80%, DeepSeek Lands in Codex, EU Enforcement Starts
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna output pricing from $6 to $1.20 per million tokens on July 30, and DeepSeek opened V4-Flash in public beta with official Codex integration docs the next day. EU AI Act GPAI enforcement began August 2.