AI News, 9 October: Cheaper Claude, GPT-6 for everyone and AI millions in Norway's budget
1. Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the price
Anthropic launched its new small model, Claude Haiku 5.5, on 7 October. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for requests of up to 100,000 tokens. Anthropic itself says the model is on average around 75 percent cheaper than Haiku 4.5. One caveat: according to the Latent Space newsletter, the testing firm Vals AI found that the model uses so many more reasoning steps that it worked out more expensive per test than its predecessor in their measurements.
Source: Anthropic
2. GPT-6 for every ChatGPT user, and answers become interactive
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 to paying users on 7 October, and on 8 October the model reached free users as well. With what OpenAI calls “Intelligent UI”, answers can contain charts, forms, buttons and small interactive tools, not just text. The same day brought an extra-fast variant for developers at six times the standard price.
Source: OpenAI
3. China: Manus raises more than $500 million
Butterfly Effect, the company behind the AI agent Manus, said on 8 October that it has raised more than $500 million. The round is led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent taking part. It is the first funding round since Chinese authorities ordered Meta to reverse its $2 billion acquisition of Manus. The valuation has not been disclosed.
Source: TechCrunch
4. Norway: NOK 121 million for AI in the 2027 national budget
In its 2027 national budget, presented on 7 October, the Norwegian government proposes around NOK 121.3 million for new AI measures. They include NOK 30 million for AI safety evaluation at KI Norge, NOK 25 million for a shared generative AI solution for the public sector and NOK 20 million for a public AI-based health guidance service.
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