NowClaude Opus 5.5 is live — the solo founder playbook.
ReadAI
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 on September 22 with Fable-class agentic coding, $4/$20 token pricing, and cache reads at $0.20 — here is how an indie team should switch this week.
Kirtesh · just now
AI
OpenAI shipped Sol and Luna on September 22 at 50% of GPT-5.6 rates. Here is the routing table for a bootstrapped product that cannot put Astra on every request.
Kirtesh · today
AI
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 a day before the Anthropic and OpenAI price cuts. Pair it with Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 only where latency beats another 2% on a coding bench.
Kirtesh · today
AI
Google’s September speech-to-speech models claim 97 languages and async tool calls. That is a product feature if you sell to people who will not type a ticket.
Kirtesh · 1 day ago
Apps
Qualcomm’s September 22 flagship chips are not a phone story only. If your app can run a small model on device, you just deleted a line item.
Kirtesh · 1 day ago
AI
MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash landed MIT-licensed on September 22 with a public RL stack. That is a self-host option, not a reason to abandon managed APIs tomorrow.
Kirtesh · 1 day ago
AI
Alibaba’s mid-September omni model takes text, image, audio, and video and answers in text with a 1M-token window. Useful if your agent is still a pile of chunkers.
Kirtesh · 2 days ago
Startups
DeepSeek dropped V4.1 Flash on September 10. For bootstrappers it is a batch and eval workhorse, not a brand to print on the homepage.
Kirtesh · 4 days ago
