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Anthropic's Opus 5 costs half of its six-week-old flagship Fable 5 and tops it on several benchmarks. The story isn't that it's good — it's what a cheaper model beating the pricier one says about where value is moving.
Kimi K3 lands credibly at the closed frontier — #2 on a major third-party leaderboard, #1 on a code board, at roughly half Opus 4.8's per-task cost. The right read is neither panic nor dismissal.
A 458M-parameter, open, sequence-only model out-discriminated AlphaFold3 on binder-vs-non-binder in 5 of 7 antibody targets. The lesson isn't "sequence beats structure" — it's what task was actually being scored.
The price of a fixed unit of model intelligence is falling roughly 10x a year, and that single curve quietly invalidates the pricing model most AI companies are built on. Build on what the curve can't touch.
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