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Three labs ship models whose headline feature is cost

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OpenAI, Meta and SpaceXAI shipped models whose headline feature is cost, with GPT-5.6 sipping tokens and Grok 4.5 twice as efficient, as buyers squeezed Anthropic's pricier models and Muse Spark 1.1 beat GPT-5.6 Sol on 525 clinician tasks at a seventh the price.

Reported metric: 1/7 the price

Reporting date: 2026-07-14 (not necessarily the event date)

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Three labs ship models whose headline feature is cost
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Reporting date: 2026-07-14
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Claim: OpenAI, Meta and SpaceXAI shipped models whose headline feature is cost, with GPT-5.6 sipping tokens and Grok 4.5 twice as efficient, as buyers squeezed Anthropic's pricier models and Muse Spark 1.1 beat GPT-5.6 Sol on 525 clinician tasks at a seventh the price.
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