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Welcome to another AI by Aakash. I follow the AI news, and test all the latest AI tools, so you don’t have to.
Personal agents are THE trend of 2026. We’re covering every one, and last week was OpenAI’s Dots.
Muse is already getting more daily US downloads than Threads, WhatsApp and Facebook, and it’s the biggest consumer AI launch since ChatGPT. Muse hit 5 million downloads in 22 days, and ChatGPT needed 56 days for that.
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So how does the “worst” model end up as the most used product? That’s todays deep dive.
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News
Top News this week: Anthropic Just Cut the Price of Intelligence by 10x
Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest model ever.
It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 output, against $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. That’s 10x cheaper cost but with a superior performance. On real work Anthropic says it runs about 75% cheaper, and my own bill fell 80% when I switched the models.
It also scores 72.4% on OSWorld, up from 15.7% for Haiku 4.5 and it beats OpenAI’s Luna models at using a computer (48.9%).
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So now you can get more work done with agents at a cheaper cost. One that burns a million tokens an hr now costs about $2.40/day in input.
The cheap price covers requests under 100K tokens which is roughly 90% of old traffic, and cache reads fell from a dime to a penny.
The Other News that Mattered
Free Gemini users now get Flash-Lite only. Google has the cheapest inference on the planet but still demand still ate the savings. Every other lab’s free tier runs on investor money rn.
Claude now sits in a Google Docs/Sheets/Slides sidebar next to Gemini. Google lost an opportunity for integration again but it wins any way because