August 15, 2026

ChatGPT and Claude Reportedly Slash Prices on New Models

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ChatGPT and Claude are reportedly cutting prices on their newest models, while Gemini now lets you hide watermarks on images.

ChatGPT

(Reported by Ars Technica) The price to use GPT-5.6 Luna, the fastest and cheapest model, has been cut by 80 percent.

According to a report from Ars Technica, OpenAI has drastically reduced the cost of using its GPT-5.6 Luna model. This 80% price drop makes one of its most capable models much more affordable for users.

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US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

OpenAI recently said that it was slashing prices for GPT-5.6 Luna, its “fastest and most affordable model”, by 80 percent.

Claude

(Reported by Ars Technica) A new model called Claude Opus 5 is now available at half the price of competing models.

A report from Ars Technica highlights a price war in the AI space. As part of this, Anthropic has reportedly launched Claude Opus 5, a new powerful model that costs significantly less to use than its main competitors.

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The app now uses an invisible watermark to label text as AI-generated, without changing the quality of the writing.

Anthropic explained how it invisibly marks text created by Claude. This digital signature helps identify content as AI-generated but is designed to have no noticeable effect on the creativity or readability of the answers you get.

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Importantly, it isn’t that the model will now always be biased toward overcast or grey.

Gemini

You can now turn off the visible watermarks on images you create with Gemini.

Google is giving users the option to remove the visible 'Created with Gemini' label on generated images. However, the company will still embed an invisible digital watermark to identify the content as AI-made.

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Google will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.

Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent .

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code