🎙️ EP 361: Closed AI Labs Trigger Price War & Alibaba Unveils Qwen4 Stack & Zhenwu Chip
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OpenAI and Anthropic triggered a new frontier AI price war with the concurrent release of GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and Claude Opus 5.5, slashing API inference costs by up to 50%. Meanwhile, Alibaba outlined its multi-year full-stack AI roadmap, announcing the upcoming Qwen4 series and introducing its custom Zhenwu V900 accelerator designed to scale into 500,000-chip computing clusters.
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OpenAI pricing GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/M input tokens and GPT-6 Sol at $2/M input tokens…
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