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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

Three major model releases in 72 hours: Anthropic's Opus 5.5, OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna variants — and pricing just collapsed.

Reporting by Simon Willison 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Frontier labs are shipping upgraded reasoning and multimodal models in rapid succession, signaling acceleration in the capability race. Simultaneous price cuts reshape AI economics for practitioners.

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  1. Claude Opus 5.5 released by Anthropic

  2. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol variant

  3. OpenAI released GPT-6 Luna variant

  4. Price war triggered — multiple model pricing cuts

  5. Published Sep 22, 2026 — breaking/same-week

  6. Concurrent releases from two frontier labs within 72 hours

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