Frontier models got cheaper, a mystery 1M-context model went free: today in AI
Hesamation · x · 2026-08-22
A dense daily AI recap with five key items:
- Anthropic opened its security scans to every Claude Enterprise customer.
- OpenAI cut API pricing by over 20% for the next three months.
- DeepSeek's V4 Flash gained vision while keeping text intelligence, reportedly approaching Opus 4.8 on some multimodal agent evals.
- Ox Alpha: a mysterious 1M-context multimodal model appeared free for a week with massive capacity; nobody knows who built it.
- NVIDIA's AVO hit 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 public set using Opus 5.
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