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Central banks' super week: Fed, ECB, BoJ seen holding; Canada may hike Moody’s spares France a downgrade as 10-year yield tops 5% Oil slips from six-month highs as Qatar mediates in Tehran China’s Fifth Plenum opens as AI exports mask weak home demand Lula wins, Brazil markets brace for shock sell-off; Tokyo Brazil ETF plunges ~15% Brazil votes today: Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro in runoff Fed, ECB, BoJ Rate Decisions This Week: Holds Expected, December in Focus Oil is pricing in the next round of war. Brent tops $116 as Iran tensions drag Wall Street lower Global money is bidding for India's biggest growth stories while leaving India’s index

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Intelligence, now on clearance sale: GPT-6 goes free, Haiku cut 90%

The AI price war has reached the cheapest tier.

Industry Radar | 8 October 2026

Intelligence, now on clearance sale: GPT-6 goes free, Haiku cut 90%

OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT user on the same day Anthropic slashed small-model prices to match.

The AI price war has reached the cheapest tier.

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 on 7 Oct. Paid plans get GPT-6 Sol, and Free and Go users get the lighter GPT-6 Luna from 8 Oct, with a new "Intelligent UI" that adds charts, forms and buttons to answers.

The same day, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output for prompts under 100K tokens.

That is a 90% cut on Haiku 4.5's $1/$5 for short prompts and 50% for longer ones, which Anthropic says works out to ~75% cheaper on average.

Anthropic also halved Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices to $0.10 per million tokens. VentureBeat notes that the new rates match GPT-6 Luna's.