xAI has released Grok 4.3, pairing a major pricing cut with a new “always-on” reasoning design and a 1 million-token context window. The model is aimed at agentic tasks, with built-in web search, code execution, and file retrieval tools. xAI also launched custom voice cloning from 120-second samples, priced for enterprise use—available with geographic limits and enterprise-gated API access.
DeepSeek-V4 has arrived as a free, MIT-licensed 1.6T Mixture-of-Experts model that reportedly matches or beats top closed systems on select benchmarks while costing about one-sixth as much as GPT-5.5 via API. The bigger story: a native one-million-token context achieved with new attention and training techniques, pressuring premium model pricing.
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OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5, its latest flagship model built to handle complex, multi-part tasks as an active collaborator. The company says it improves performance in coding, knowledge work, and scientific research, boosting autonomy and efficiency while keeping latency unchanged. OpenAI is also rolling out new API pricing, starting at $5 per 1 million tokens.
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