September 22 was wild: Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 per 1M tokens. 90 minutes later, OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Sol at literally half that — $2/$10. Plus Luna at $0.10.
Frontier intelligence is now priced like a commodity. The model isn't the moat anymore; distribution is.
Who wins a price war when both sides can print intelligence?
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The phone company just embarrassed every AI lab:
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now the #1 open-weights model (AA index 46, tied with Grok 4.7) — MIT licensed, free for commercial use.
Wildest part: the whole RL run cost about $2.62M, and they released the training code plus 7,000+ RL environments alongside the weights.
Open weights AND open training. Everyone else is the closed one now.
RKLB had quite the week:
🚀 Iridium shareholders approved the $54/share merger (99.6% yes)
🛰️ Spot on the $981M Space Force NITE-STAR vehicle
📈 ARK bought ~$25M more
+5% Thursday to $73.61.
A launch company buying a satellite network plus a defense contract pipeline... the "space conglomerate" thesis is writing itself.
Not financial advice.