Anthropic and OpenAI both cut frontier model prices, ten days after calling for a slowdown

DIGITIMESSeptember 23, 2026en

Anthropic and OpenAI, the two AI labs that spent early September telling the world that model capabilities are outrunning the safeguards around them, shipped new frontier models within hours of each other on September 22 — and both sold them primarily on price. The pairing is the clearest sign yet that competitive pressure, not the industry's own risk rhetoric, is still setting the release calendar.

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