Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 Is Its Cheapest Small Model Yet
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, saying the small model runs about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 and has a 1-million-token context.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
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Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Can Clone a Voice From 30 Seconds of Audio
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, adding prompt-based voice design, more than 2,000 voices and consent-checked voice cloning.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
SpaceXAI Ships Grok 4.7 for Coding at Grok 4.6 Prices, With Vendor Benchmarks to Match
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026, calling it its most capable coding model yet, with the same $2 and $6 token prices as Grok 4.6.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
A ChatGPT Co-Inventor Says the Missing Piece of AI Is a Model That Won't Talk
TypeSafe AI left stealth with $40 million and a model called Jev that returns typed probabilities instead of prose. It is faster and cheaper than an LLM, but it is not trying to be one.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Reasons Out Loud While It Talks
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two voice models that reason mid-conversation and top a new speech-to-speech index.
By TPW Editorial7 min read
DeepSeek's Cheaper V4.1-Flash Beats Its Own Pro Model on Agent Tasks
DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash packs a new 552B architecture and aggressive pricing, and it outruns the company's own Pro tier on many agent and coding benchmarks.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
DeepSeek's V4 Pro Is Its Best Model Yet, and Its Priciest by Far
DeepSeek launched V4 Pro and raised API prices by up to 14x, its sharpest break yet from the low-cost strategy that made it a global AI phenomenon.
By TPW Editorial10 min read
ByteDance's SeedRealtime Can Watch, Listen and Speak at Once: If You're in Doubao
ByteDance launched SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex model that decides when to talk. It's free in the Doubao app, but has no developer API.
By TPW Editorial9 min read