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Edition 023 — Half-price frontier, a trillion-parameter open model, and a robot that rehearses before it moves
The frontier got cheaper this week, not smarter: OpenAI slashed GPT-6 Sol and Luna prices by up to 58% and Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower running cost. Xiaomi put a 1.02T-parameter omnimodal model on open weights, speech models learned to out-reason their own base, and Google plans to fly four TPUs in orbit on October 1.