AI brief
The text describes Anthropic and OpenAI as having pulled ahead in the AI race, with Google appearing far behind and Meta spending billions to revive its efforts.
Written by AI from The Verge AI's published text.
Background
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OpenAI
- Latest funding
- $30B · 31 Oct 2026
- Newest model on the API
- GPT-6.1 Terra Pro · 26 Oct 2026 · $1 in / $5 out per million tokens
Anthropic
- Latest funding
- Growth · $65B · 28 May 2026
- Newest model on the API
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 Oct 2026 · $0.1 in / $0.5 out per million tokens
Source
“Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust.”
Reporting from a publisher outside the organisation being covered.
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