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Claude Opus 5 Delivers Near-Fable Intelligence at Half the Price
Deep Dive5 min read
Claude Opus 5 Delivers Near-Fable Intelligence at Half the Price

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 — a model that approaches Fable 5 on coding and reasoning benchmarks while costing half as much. It sets new state-of-the-art on Frontier-Bench, triples the next-best score on ARC-AGI 3, and introduces an effort dial that lets developers trade tokens for speed.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Ships Cheaper and Faster, But Not Smarter
News Brief3 min read
Gemini 3.6 Flash Ships Cheaper and Faster, But Not Smarter

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber — matching its predecessor's intelligence score but cutting cost and output tokens, while the promised Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing.