OpenAI and Anthropic weekly: price cuts, ciphers, Astra
btibor91 · x · 2026-08-02
This week OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, added Fast mode for Sol, opened free frontier model access for 100,000 academic researchers, shared ten math/CS advances from internal model Astra, and shipped GPT Transcribe, Terraform provider, Codex Security CLI, and more.
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