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A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts between June and October, driven by low switching costs and heavy competition from open-weight models (Max Woolf's Blog)

Source: TECHMEME · OCT 26, 2026

Max Woolf's Blog : A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts between June and October, driven by low switching costs and heavy competition from open-weight models — Let's look at a quick timeline of the major LLM model announcements from both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few months.

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