{"id":531165,"date":"2026-07-08T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:58:11","slug":"openai-returns-to-the-ring-as-anthropics-cheaper-ai-raises-the-stakes-elon-musk-teases-grok-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531165\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Returns To The Ring As Anthropic\u2019s Cheaper AI Raises The Stakes \u2013 Elon Musk Teases Grok 4.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">In recent days, Anthropic restored access to its flagship Mythos and Fable AI models and launched Sonnet 5.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">SpaceXAI founder Elon Musk jumped in to say that his company would roll out its Grok 4.5 AI model available to the public on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">OpenAI and Anthropic have filed confidentially for their IPOs, although OpenAI is reportedly delaying its IPO until next year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">OpenAI upped the heat on Wednesday, launching its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol AI model, weeks after Anthropic restored its powerful Mythos model and launched a low-cost Sonnet 5 AI model as both firms march ahead in their plans for initial public offerings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">OpenAI announced that its GPT-5.6 flagship model, Sol, as well as the lower tiers Terra and Luna, will launch this Thursday publicly, after delaying the release last month at the U.S. government&#8217;s request amid mounting national security concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stocktwits.com\/newsletters\" data-ylk=\"slk:See%20what%2010M%2B%20investors%20are%20talking%20about.%20Get%20the%20Stocktwits%20Daily%20Rip%20for%20what%20retail%20is%20watching%20right%20now%2C%20free%20to%20your%20inbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;See what 10M+ investors are talking about. 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Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Axios reported, citing a source, that the Donald Trump administration had approved a broad launch of GPT-5.6 following additional testing and meetings between \u200cthe company \u2060and government officials.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Last month, Anthropic had disabled its most advanced AI models \u2014 Mythos 5 and Fable 5 \u2014 for all users after the government&#8217;s June 12 export control order. The curbs were lifted last week after Anthropic implemented certain safeguards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">On June 30, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, an AI model that the company says delivers nearly the same performance as its flagship Opus 4.8 at mid-tier prices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The release showed the company is trying to make capabilities that were once limited to its most expensive models available to more users, while driving broader developer adoption ahead of its planned IPO.  <\/p>\n<p>        Musk Says Grok 4.5 Launching On Wednesday          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">After OpenAI&#8217;s announcement, SpaceXAI founder Elon Musk jumped in to say that his company would roll out its Grok 4.5 AI model available to the public on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow,&#8221; Musk said in an X post.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Taking a dig at Anthropic, he added: &#8220;It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>        Race To IPO           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward stock market listings and have recently submitted confidential filings to regulators, although OpenAI&#8217;s IPO timeline now appears to have shifted to a later date.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent days, Anthropic restored access to its flagship Mythos and Fable AI models and launched Sonnet 5.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,350,13714,85,46,1748,125],"class_list":["post-531165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-grok","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-openai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}