๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ก๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐ช ๐ช๐๐๐ฅ๐
๐ง๐๐ ๐ก๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ง๐๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฆ
๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ง ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ก ๐จ๐ก๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ง๐๐ฆ
the curve P-256 protects most passkeys and a big chunk of HTTPS
it was built from a โseedโ the NSA handed over in the late 90s, with no explanation
the rumor was it came from hashing a joke passphrase
the man who made it, Jerry Solinas, died in 2023 without telling anyone
cryptographers even put up a $36,864 bounty to find the answer
then an Anthropic research model got the question, with no hints
under half an hour later:
the seeds werenโt hashes at all
they came from lrand48, an old C random number generator
seeded with the computerโs clock, between May 1997 and April 1998
same story for P-192, P-224, P-384 and P-521
[the part people will miss: this is not a crack. your passkeys are fine. it actually makes a hidden NSA backdoor much less likely, because now anyone can reproduce the seeds]
whatโs still open:
why some valid seeds were skipped
the B-163 seed is still unexplained
most base points are still a mystery
the bounty goes to ISRG, the nonprofit behind Letโs Encrypt
27 years of conspiracy theories
one random number generator
๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐โ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ก๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐
๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ก ๐ค๐จ๐๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐จ๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ณ๐ซ
Claude Mythos 5 was given 8 building blocks of quantum algorithms and told to make them cheaper
how it worked:
Claude writes a circuit as Python code
a separate program (not an AI) checks if itโs correct and scores the cost
Claude gets the score and tries again
no human between rounds
the results:
modular inversion: 17x fewer gates than the smallest previous design, with 12% more qubits
a decoder for Googleโs DQI algorithm: 12x fewer gates
one run went for 53 hours straight
the math was formally proved in Lean, not just tested
[the part people will miss: modular inversion is a key step in quantum attacks on elliptic-curve crypto, the kind that protects Bitcoin wallets and HTTPS. cheaper circuits there means less hardware needed to break it]
before anyone panics:
nothing ran on a real quantum computer, these are resource estimates
itโs a preprint, no one has reproduced it yet
todayโs machines are still far too small and noisy
and you canโt use this model, Mythos 5 is only for vetted partners
same week Google showed cleaner magic states on real hardware
the hardware is getting better
and now AI is shrinking the math
๐ก๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐
๐๐ก๐ง๐ข ๐ข๐ก๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt: 74B parameters, 9B active
the math on the weights:
16-bit: ~148GB
8-bit: ~74GB
4-bit: ~37GB
2-bit: ~18.5GB
NVIDIA built it for 2-bit natively, so it fits on a single 24GB card like an RTX 4090
runs in Ollama and LM Studio, weights on Hugging Face
for context, Metaโs Muse Spark Open this week needs two 512GB Mac Studios
[the part people will miss: fitting is not the same as competing. on the Artificial Analysis index Bolt scores 21.4, Opus 5.5 sits at 58]
where it actually makes sense:
local agents that browse and search, itโs #2 among open models on BrowseComp
private data you canโt send to an API
the cheap repeat steps, while a frontier model handles the hard ones
and a 4GB version (Bolt E4B) drops Oct 23 for voice and devices
the gap isnโt closing at the top
itโs closing on your desk
๐๐ก ๐ ๐๐ฌ, ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐
๐ช๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐ฆ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐๐
๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ง
the timeline:
Apr 8: Muse Spark ships, closed
May 13: Metaโs AI chief calls it not suitable for open sourcing
Aug 10: Zuckerberg promises the weights in the coming weeks
Oct 15: Muse Spark Open lands on Hugging Face
816B parameters, 42B active, 1M context
where it beats the best open model:
MCP-Atlas (tool use): 89.2 vs 84.5
HLE-Diamond: 26.1 vs 22.2
JobBench: 61.8 vs 61.4
where it loses:
Terminal-Bench: 76.4 vs 85.0 for Kimi K3
DeepSWE: 60 vs 68 for Kimi K3
so Meta says itโs built for coding, but Kimi K3 still codes better
where it really shines is using tools
[the part people will miss: โruns on a Mac Studioโ means roughly 400GB of weights at 4-bit. thatโs the top config, not the one on your desk]
before you download:
these scores are from Metaโs own table
check the license, itโs not the same as Glimmerโs Apache 2.0
for local use, the 30B Glimmer is still the realistic pick
open weights are back at Meta
open to everyoneโs desk is another story
๐ฆ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ซโ๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐ฏ.๐ฌ ๐๐ฆ #๐ญ ๐ข๐ก ๐ง๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ
๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ข๐๐๐โ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐
Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index:
Grok Voice 3.0: 86.9
GPT-Live-1 Astra: 83.2
Gemini 3.8 Live: 82.6
clear win, highest score on the board
now look at the Speech Agent Arena, where real people pick the voice they prefer:
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: 1100
Gemini 3.8 Live: 1088
Grok Voice 3.0: 1070
same model, third place
[the part people will miss: xAIโs own launch table shows Grok on top for human preference, because the two Gemini models above it arenโt in the table]
what Grok actually does best:
finishes the task, 94.8% success rate, best on the board
cheap at $0.08 a minute
fast, about 0.81s to first audio, but thatโs a bit slower than Grok Voice 2.0
if youโre building support calls, Grok is a strong pick
if your users will just talk to it, test Gemini too
tests measure the task
people measure how it feels
๐๐ข๐ข๐๐๐โ๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐ช ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ข ๐ฐ
๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ก๐ง ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง
Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5, Googleโs own table:
Argon wins:
Vals Index 68.9 vs 67.0
AutomationBench 51.3 vs 42.5
DeepSWE 77.9 vs 74.2
GraphWalks at 1M tokens 84.2 vs 66.8
long video, lab tasks
Opus wins:
FrontierSWE 62.3 vs 55.0
Terminal-Bench 66.4 vs 57.4
PostTrainBench and Terminal science tasks
so Argon is great at huge context and long workflows
Opus still leads when an agent lives in the terminal
[the part people will miss: $2/$10 is an intro price. Google says it goes to $4/$20 later and hasnโt said when]
before you switch:
almost every number above comes from Google, no one has reproduced them yet
early testers say frontend and design are its weak spot
run it on 5 of your real tasks, not on a leaderboard
6 to 4 is a headline
your tasks are the real benchmark
๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐โ๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ช๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐จ๐๐๐กโ๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐ฃ
May: ~2,500 merged changes a day
September: 30,000+
thatโs 12x in 4 months, mostly from Claude and CI, not people
git was built for humans who pull the whole repo and push once in a while
agents do the opposite, all day
so they built their own source control, Scion:
7 engineers, 5 months, with Claude writing a lot of it
about 200x less CPU and memory than their old git mirrors
checkouts went from minutes to seconds
25% more CPU freed up for CI
[the part people will miss: Scion isnโt open source and Anthropic says itโs not a drop-in git replacement. what they shared is the design]
2 ideas you can steal anyway:
do commits and merges on the server, not on every machine
fetch files on demand instead of cloning the whole repo
fun detail: the weird โAntique change requestsโ on their chart is their new code review tool
the model wasnโt the bottleneck
the pipes were
๐ ๐๐ง๐โ๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐ช ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ข๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐
๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฃ ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐ข๐ก ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ง
Meta just dropped Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full
the numbers are real:
Artificial Analysis index: Opus 5.5 at 58, Wonder Full at 56, base Wonder at 52
API price: $4 in / $20 out, same as Opus
cost to run the full AA test: $4.52 for Wonder vs $5.98 for Opus
long coding runs (SWE-Marathon): Full 57.5 vs Opus 46.3
the catch:
only base Wonder is on the API
Full lives inside Muse Code, $50 or $200 a month, no pay-as-you-go
and itโs not open weights, only the small Glimmer model is
[the part people will miss: Muse Code ships with โcontributor modeโ ON, your submissions help train Metaโs models, and turning it off only covers what you send after]
3 rules before you try it:
flip contributor mode off before your first prompt
no client or company code in it, Metaโs own terms say nothing confidential in contributor mode
benchmark it on your repo, not on a chart
cheap and close to the top is great
just read the settings first
๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐'๐ฆ ๐ค๐ช๐๐ก. ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ช๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ก๐๐, ๐๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ ๐ง๐๐ ๐ช๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐ก๐ง
it's called Microsoft-Decision-1
you give it a task and a fixed list of answers. it gives back a probability for each one. no text, no reasoning, one pass
refund 0.97
bug report 0.02
sales 0.01
the numbers, from Microsoft:
- $0.042 per million input tokens, output is free
- about 35x faster than GPT-6 Sol
- 36 benchmarks, about 150,000 questions it never trained on
- post-trained from Alibaba's open Qwen3.5-9B
[the part people will miss: you are not supposed to trust the score blindly. Microsoft gives example thresholds for what to do with it]
- above 0.95: do it automatically
- 0.60 to 0.95: send it to a bigger model
- below 0.60: ask a human
where it fits:
1. routing. decide which model gets the request before you pay for the expensive one
2. checking agents. grade an action as ok or not ok before it runs
3. sorting. tickets, reviews, survey answers by theme
where it does not fit: writing, planning, anything that needs an explanation
the cheapest part of an agent might soon be the part that decides
๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐ $๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ง๐จ๐ฃ ๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐๐ฌ. ๐ก๐ข๐ช ๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ก ๐๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐ข ๐ฃ๐๐ฌ $๐ณ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ง
the startup is Decart
- may: valued at about $4B after a $300M round, Nvidia joined as an investor
- august: Anthropic explores buying it for about $6B
- september: after due diligence, Anthropic walks away
- october 11: the Wall Street Journal says Amazon is in talks at about $7B
what Decart actually builds:
- Lucy, a model that edits live video in real time
- Oasis, a model that generates simulated worlds to train and test robots and self-driving systems
so one company opened the books and said no. another is ready to pay a billion more
[the part people will miss: nobody has said why Anthropic walked. the same data can look like a bad deal to one buyer and a must-have to another]
3 reasons it can make sense for Amazon and not for Anthropic:
1. Amazon runs AWS. generated video and simulation burn huge amounts of compute, and every hour of it is a customer for their cloud
2. robots and self-driving need endless training worlds. Amazon runs warehouses full of robots
3. Anthropic builds models for text, code and agents. a live video company is a much harder fit there
nothing is signed yet, and the deal can still fall apart
who made the right call here, Anthropic or Amazon?
๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ญ,๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ง๐๐ฆ, ๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐ง๐ข๐ข๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ช๐๐ฌ. ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ฃ
3 randomized trials. researchers from Berkeley, CMU, MIT, Oxford and UCLA
- 354 people solved 15 fraction problems. one group had ChatGPT open, it was taken away after problem 12
- 667 people in a bigger repeat
- 201 people on an SAT reading task
with AI the group did better. the moment AI was removed, their accuracy dropped almost at once and they started skipping problems
the group that never had AI kept going and finished better
[the part people will miss: this is not "AI makes you dumb". it is what happens when AI hands you the answer every time. you lose the habit of sitting with a hard problem]
3 ways to use AI and keep that habit:
1. ask for a hint, not the answer. "don't solve it, give me the next step only"
2. try first, then open the chat. give yourself 10 honest minutes alone
3. make it quiz you back. "ask me 3 questions to check I understood"
one of the authors said AI should act more like a tutor than an answer machine
use it to think, not to skip thinking
๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ญ,๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ง๐๐ฆ, ๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐ง๐ข๐ข๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ช๐๐ฌ. ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ฃ
3 randomized trials. researchers from Berkeley, CMU, MIT, Oxford and UCLA
- 354 people solved 15 fraction problems. one group had ChatGPT open, it was taken away after problem 12
- 667 people in a bigger repeat
- 201 people on an SAT reading task
with AI the group did better. the moment AI was removed, their accuracy dropped almost at once and they started skipping problems
the group that never had AI kept going and finished better
[the part people will miss: this is not "AI makes you dumb". it is what happens when AI hands you the answer every time. you lose the habit of sitting with a hard problem]
3 ways to use AI and keep that habit:
1. ask for a hint, not the answer. "don't solve it, give me the next step only"
2. try first, then open the chat. give yourself 10 honest minutes alone
3. make it quiz you back. "ask me 3 questions to check I understood"
one of the authors said AI should act more like a tutor than an answer machine
use it to think, not to skip thinking
๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ง๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐ก๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ฃ๐ง ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ก. ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ฆ "๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐ฆ", ๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐จ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐๐
anthropic just published a guide on agents that run on a schedule with nobody watching
the mistake they call out: telling the agent to read "the last 24 hours"
- run starts late, you miss a stretch
- run starts early, you get duplicates
the fix: a bookmark per source. after each run the agent saves the time of the newest item it read. next run starts from there
[the part people will miss: when a source is down or a token expired, the agent sees nothing and reports "nothing new". your brief looks like a quiet day when it was actually broken]
3 more rules from the same guide:
1. a failed read is not a quiet day. end the brief with what couldn't be read, like "pull requests unavailable this run"
2. "maybe posted". a post counts as sent only when the destination confirms it. if the result is unclear, mark it "maybe posted" and change nothing else. no double posts
3. give the agent read-only access wherever it only reads, and cap what each run can spend. start at 3 to 5x the cost of a normal run
bonus: your preferences live in a store the agent can't edit. it re-reads them every run
if you run any scheduled agent, check the prompt for "last 24 hours" or "since yesterday" today
๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ข๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ง ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ง๐จ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ $๐ญ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐. ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐
on october 6 anthropic opened Claude for Startups:
- a free year of Claude Team, up to 5 seats
- $1,000 in API credits
- open to startups founded in the last 5 years or that raised in the last 2. bootstrapped counts
3 days later the official page says: "we're currently over capacity on the Claude Team and $1,000 API credit offers"
[the part people will miss: the rest of the program is still open, and it is worth more than the headline]
what you can still get:
- Startup Stack: partner offers worth up to $45K. ElevenLabs, Hex, ClickHouse, Granola and more
- up to $100K in extra API credits if a VC in Anthropic's partner network backs you
- 45 minute office hours with Anthropic's Applied AI team every other week
- higher API rate limits for members with credits
3 rules before you apply:
1. apply anyway. anthropic says it is re-reviewing applications, statuses can change
2. use your company email. it has to match your website domain
3. credits only work on the Claude API through the Console. not on Bedrock or Vertex AI
the free year was the hook. the stack is the real deal
๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ ๐ง๐ข ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ข๐ฆ ๐ช๐๐ง๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ข ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐. ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ง ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ง
it is called Claude Motion. you give it a prompt, a report or a chart and it builds a short animated explainer
the trick: it writes the animation as code. no generated footage, no AI people. every text, number and timing stays editable
then you download an MP4 or open it in Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Runway and a few others
same day, two more things shipped:
- Dashboards: live charts from Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, ClickHouse and connectors like Salesforce
- Docs, Slides and Design left beta, with PowerPoint and PDF exports that keep the formatting
[the part people will miss: Motion is only on Team and Enterprise. Dashboards is paid plans only. but Docs, Slides and Design are now on every plan, including Free]
3 rules:
1. on Free? try Slides today. it is the biggest upgrade most people actually got
2. using Dashboards? open the query behind each chart. every chart shows its SQL and refresh time. connect with read-only access
3. still on standalone Claude Design? it closes December 14. chats and comments do not carry over, move your design systems now
anthropic says people already made 45 million docs, decks and designs in Claude
charts that move are about to be everywhere
๐ข๐ฃ๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ซ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ. ๐๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ช ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ ๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐
today openai rolled out Ultrafast for GPT-6.1 Sol in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work
- up to 300 tokens per second
- up to 8x faster in Codex, up to 6x in the API
the price per million tokens:
- Sol standard: $2 input, $10 output
- Sol Ultrafast: $12 input, $60 output
that is 6x the price
[the part people will miss: standard GPT-6 Astra, their biggest model, costs $10/$50. openai itself calls Ultrafast Sol "just 1.2x the cost of Astra". you pay more than the top model for a near-top model that answers faster]
3 rules before you switch it on:
1. use it when someone is waiting. live debugging, agents clicking through apps, demos
2. keep background jobs on standard. an overnight batch does not care about speed, you would pay 6x for nothing
3. need the best answer and not the fastest? standard Astra is cheaper
in Codex and Work it is only on Pro 500, usage-based Enterprise and Edu for now
speed is the new premium tier
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on october 7 grok bot got native access to X. no connector, no setup
3 new jobs:
- search: posts about your product, a rival or a topic
- read: sums up the themes people keep repeating
- monitor: alerts or a weekly roundup on what you track
in the official demo it read 328 posts for one prompt
[the part people will miss: you still need a SuperGrok or Cursor plan to use grok bot at all. and 100+ posts per prompt is a sample, not the whole conversation]
3 rules so the report is actually useful:
1. ask how many posts it read. a summary of 30 posts is not a summary of 300
2. set a weekly roundup, not a constant feed. one topic, one rival, one launch
3. connect your own X account if you want mentions and your timeline. native search only covers public posts
it also will not post or DM for you. it drafts, you send
the bot reads X now. you still decide what it means
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gpt-6 landed in the chat tab on october 7
- plus, pro, business, enterprise: gpt-6 sol
- free and go: gpt-6 luna, rolling out from october 8
the big new thing is called intelligent UI. answers are not just text anymore. chatgpt can reply with charts, diagrams, side-by-side comparisons and small tools you use right in the chat. it picks the format itself and still gives plain text when that works better
it also starts answering while it is still thinking, then adds more without a new prompt
[the part people will miss: the pro reasoning option still runs gpt-6 astra, and openai says it does not support intelligent UI. so the one thing that makes pro different in chat cannot do the new interactive answers]
3 rules to get the most out of it:
1. ask for a tool, not a text. "make this a calculator", "show it as a chart", "compare these side by side"
2. want interactive answers? stay on instant to extra high. those run sol and support it. pro does not
3. on free or go you get luna, and it may take a bit to show up. work and codex did not change
the paid plans got the same model. the difference now is how you ask
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claude haiku 5.5 is out today
- input: $1.00 down to $0.10 per million tokens
- output: $5.00 down to $0.50
and it is not the same model with a new sticker. anthropic's own tests, haiku 4.5 vs 5.5:
- computer use: 15.7% to 72.4%
- agentic coding: 0.0% to 39.2%
- hard reasoning: 10.2% to 45.9%
[the part people will miss: that price is only for prompts up to 100k tokens. go over and input costs $0.50, output $2.50. that is 5x more. it is why the headline says "75% cheaper on average" and not 90%]
3 rules so you actually get the cheap price:
1. keep every prompt under 100k tokens. split big jobs into smaller calls
2. give it narrow work. summaries, lookups, classification, subagents under opus or sonnet. anthropic says the bigger models are still better for complex coding
3. it is the first haiku with an effort setting. start on low, go up only when it fails
two more things from the same post:
- max and team plans get monthly API credit: $100, $200, or up to $500 for teams
- sonnet 5.5 cache reads got 50% cheaper
the cheapest model just became the one to learn first
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one command turns it on:
/plugin enable cc-plugin-you-should-know@builtin
it is called "You should know"
while claude works on your task, a side agent follows along and flags things you or claude might miss. the note shows up right above your prompt
needs version 2.1.287 or newer and telemetry on
shipped october 1, buried in a changelog under the Mods launch
try it on your next long task
