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Claude Duet vs OpenAI Dots vs Meta Muse: What Each Always-On Agent Does Without Asking

Anthropic's Claude Duet joins OpenAI dots and Meta Muse as the third always-on personal agent in seven weeks. Same architecture, three different answers on background behavior, who pays for it, and...

The Price of a Web Search Is the Smallest Line on Your AI Agent’s Search Bill

DeepSeek now sells web search at $0.75 per 1,000 requests, against $10 for Anthropic and OpenAI. The per-call fee rarely decides the bill. The tokens each search drags into context do, and here are...

Meta Built Its Frontier Model to Remember You, Then Put the Best One Behind a Subscription That Trains on Your Data

Meta's Muse Wonder lands mid-pack on score and price, so it competes on cross-session memory instead. That reframes the buying decision as a data-governance one, and the best model is coupled to a...

Claude Haiku 5.5 Matched a Rival’s Price Instead of Undercutting It. Where It Actually Earns a Slot Is the Effort Dial.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper and leaps on computer use, but it matched GPT-6 Luna's price rather than undercutting it, and the benchmark it leads with runs at max effort. Where the budget model...

Reflection’s Beam Arrived as America’s Open Frontier Model. It Has No Weights, No Price, and No Win Over the Rivals It Targets.

Reflection AI's Beam is a 501B open-weight frontier model pitched against DeepSeek. The weights, the price, and a clear benchmark win aren't here yet. Where it actually fits.

Your Agent Pays Frontier Rates Just to Decide ‘Should I Call This Tool.’ A New Model Class Answers in Milliseconds and Never Writes a Word.

A new model class returns a typed probability instead of prose, gating agent decisions in milliseconds for pennies. Four shipped open in a single week. Where decision models fit, and what to verify...