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AI Models

Deepseek makes 75% discount permanent, undercuts GPT-5.5 by 34x on output pricing

Deepseek has made its 75 percent discount on the flagship Deepseek V4 Pro model permanent, slashing output token prices to $0.87 per million versus $30 for GPT-5.5. The move intensifies the price war between Chinese and Western AI labs, with Deepseek offering output tokens at roughly 34.5 times less than OpenAI's top model. The permanent pricing, originally set to expire May 31, 2026, also undercuts Anthropic's Opus 4.7 by a similar margin on output tokens.

May 233 minNeura News

Automation

Anthropic Releases 10 Finance Agent Templates

Anthropic has launched ten agent templates for key financial tasks like pitchbooks, KYC screening, and month-end closes. These work as plugins in Claude Cowork and Claude Code or cookbooks for Claude Managed Agents. Integration with Microsoft apps and new data connectors enhance capabilities, paired with Claude Opus 4.7 topping benchmarks.

May 57 minNeura News

AI Tools

Open Design: Open-Source Claude Design Alternative

Open Design provides an open-source option to Anthropic's Claude Design, released on 2026-04-17 with Opus 4.7. It uses 12 coding-agent CLIs like Claude Code, Codex, and Devin for Terminal, detected on PATH, along with 31 skills and 72 design systems. Local-first and web-deployable, it supports BYOK at every layer and runs with pnpm tools-dev.

May 26 minNeura News

AI Models

ARC-AGI-3 Shows Three Reasoning Errors in GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7

An analysis by the ARC Prize Foundation of 160 game runs on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark reveals three systematic reasoning errors in OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Opus 4.7. Both models score below 1 percent, with GPT-5.5 at 0.43 percent and Opus 4.7 at 0.18 percent. The errors include missing the big picture from local details, confusing new environments with training games, and failing to verify successful strategies.

May 24 minNeura News

AI Models

GPT-5.5 Tops Benchmarks but Hallucinates Often, Costs 20% More

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 60 points, surpassing Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. Its API pricing shows a net 20 percent increase over GPT-5.4 due to doubled rates offset by 40 percent fewer tokens. The model achieves top accuracy on fact benchmarks yet hallucinates at an 86 percent rate.

Apr 243 minNeura News

AI Models

Opus 4.7 Burns More Tokens Than 4.6 at Same Price

Early measurements show Anthropic's Opus 4.7 model consumes significantly more tokens per request than Opus 4.6, despite identical pricing. Developer Abhishek Ray reported averages like 1.325x for code content and up to 1.47x for technical docs. Community data indicates a 37.4 percent rise in token use and costs across 483 tests, with modest gains in instruction following.

Apr 192 minNeura News

Developer

Claude Opus 4.7 System Prompt Changes from 4.6

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, with updates to its Claude.ai system prompt compared to Opus 4.6 from February 5, 2026. The changes focus on using tools to resolve ambiguities, completing tasks fully, keeping responses concise, and handling sensitive topics carefully. Anthropic continues its practice of publishing these prompts, dating back to Claude 3 in July 2024.

Apr 194 minNeura News

Product Launch

Anthropic Launches Claude Design for Chat Prototypes

Anthropic released Claude Design, a chat tool that generates prototypes, slide decks, and marketing materials. It uses the Claude Opus 4.7 vision model and serves Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users in research preview. Users refine designs through conversation and export to formats like PPTX, PDF, and Canva.

Apr 173 minNeura News

Product Launch

Anthropic Launches Claude Design for Quick Visuals

Anthropic has introduced Claude Design, an experimental tool that enables users to generate visuals such as prototypes, slides, and one-pagers through descriptions to Claude. Aimed at non-designers like founders and product managers, it allows quick idea-to-visual creation with refinements and exports to formats including PDFs and Canva. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, it's available in research preview for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers amid Anthropic's enterprise push.

Apr 173 minNeura News

Industry

Anthropic CPO Resigns from Figma Board on Competition Reports

Mike Krieger, chief product officer at Anthropic, stepped down from Figma's board on April 14. The move came the same day reports surfaced about Anthropic's Opus 4.7 model featuring design tools that rival Figma's core product. Figma disclosed the resignation to the SEC amid its collaboration with Anthropic on AI integrations.

Apr 163 minNeura News

AI Models

Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 Boosts Coding Scores

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7, scoring 64.3 percent on SWE-bench Pro, surpassing Opus 4.6's 53.4 percent and OpenAI's GPT-5.4 at 57.7 percent. The model triples image resolution to 2,576 pixels and reduces cybersecurity features during training with new blocks on risky requests. Pricing holds steady per token, but a new tokenizer raises effective costs.

Apr 163 minNeura News

AI Models

Claude Opus 4.7 Released with 1M Context Window

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, a hybrid reasoning model with a 1 million token context window. It improves performance in coding, vision, and multi-step tasks compared to prior versions. The model supports advanced use cases in software engineering, AI agents, and enterprise workflows.

Apr 1611 minNeura News