The AI Pricing War Nobody Slowed Down
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI answered within hours with two cheaper GPT-6 models, Sol and Luna, ten days after both companies' chief executives publicly pushed for a pause in the race. The cheaper tiers, not the smarter ones, are where the fight is now, and open-weight models from Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Meta are the reason.