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OpenAI's "28 Days of Continuous Releases" stunt hit Day 3 with its biggest consumer move yet: the GPT-6 model series is now rolling out globally to every ChatGPT user, free and paid. Plus and Team subscribers get GPT-6 Sol, while free and Go users will see GPT-5.6 gradually replaced by GPT-6 Luna. Alongside the rollout, OpenAI says Codex and Work weekly active users have passed 40 million, with usage quotas reset across the board.

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Mistral has finally shipped a frontier-class model, and it is a statement piece. Large 4, immediately nicknamed "Le Chonk" by an internet that could not resist, is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 1.05 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters, wrapped around a 1-million-token context window. It was trained from scratch on 3,800 Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European datacenters — no rented American cloud, no borrowed infrastructure — and it is available right now as a public preview through Mistral's API.

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Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 with a price cut that rearranges the math of production AI work: about 90 percent cheaper than Haiku 4.5 on the prompts that matter. Short-context requests up to 100,000 tokens now cost 10 cents per million input tokens and 50 cents per million output tokens, with cache reads at a penny. Above the 100k line the discount drops to 50 percent.

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