OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals close the gap
OpenAI and Anthropic are slashing prices on their mid-tier AI models as cheaper Chinese alternatives gain traction among cost-conscious businesses and developers. The price cuts mark a shift from competing purely on model performance to competing on cost, with Chinese labs like DeepSeek and Moonshot forcing the market down. OpenAI cut prices on GPT-5.6 Luna, […]
DeepSeek Harness: the plugin first framework for AI agents
DeepSeek’s open source agent framework, DeepSeek Harness, exploded onto GitHub this week and picked up close to 70,000 stars in a single day. The repo’s tagline is simple and a little audacious: “everything is a plugin.” That phrasing is doing a lot of work, and it’s worth unpacking what the project actually ships, because the […]