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Three Frontier Models in Ten Days: Architect for the Swap
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Three Frontier Models in Ten Days: Architect for the Swap

Three frontier model releases landed inside ten days in early July 2026: Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, xAI's Grok 4.5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family. The pace, not any single model, is the real event. It signals that 'best available' now resets on a roughly monthly clock while prices converge inside a few dollars per million tokens. For PMs, that turns model choice from a quarterly bet into a portability problem your architecture has to solve now.

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Claude Sonnet 5 Scores 63.2% on SWE-bench at 60% Less Cost — Anthropic IPO Strategy in Plain Sight
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Claude Sonnet 5 Scores 63.2% on SWE-bench at 60% Less Cost — Anthropic IPO Strategy in Plain Sight

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 with near-flagship performance at mid-tier pricing. The model scores 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro approaching Opus 4.8 at 69.2% while costing roughly 60% less per token. The timing is not accidental. With a blockbuster IPO on the horizon Anthropic is compressing the price-performance gap to accelerate API adoption and grow the user base that justifies its valuation.

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