Anthropic's Opus 4.1 costs 10x more than competitors for a 2% performance bump. While OpenAI readies GPT-5, Anthropic ships an honest ".1" release that actually performs worse on some tasks. The premium AI pricing bubble might be about to pop.
After five years of closed development, OpenAI just released two free AI models anyone can download and run locally. The timing isn't coincidental—Chinese competitors have been dominating open-source AI while OpenAI courted Washington.
While AI music rivals face billion-dollar lawsuits for copyright infringement, ElevenLabs took a different approach: they asked permission first. Their new music generator launched with licensing deals already signed.
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