Well, actually, the 'intelligence' you're buying just got cheaper: OpenAI, Meta, and xAI enter a race to the bottom
Three major AI developers released new models in a single week. Their primary competitive advantage is not capability but cost. OpenAI's GPT-5.6, its most advanced offering, is central to this pricing pressure. Meta and Musk's xAI also cut rates. The Los Angeles Times frames this as a price war.
This teaches you to treat model selection as a commodity decision, not a loyalty exercise. The same prompt will soon cost fractions of a cent across multiple providers. Your workflow should incorporate price-comparison between APIs, not vendor lock-in.
OpenAI with GPT-5.6, Meta, and Elon Musk's xAI are the three developers named by the Los Angeles Times. The source does not specify exact price figures or percentage cuts.
Step 1: Open a free account at two different AI chat platforms, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and a competitor like Anthropic's Claude or Google Gemini. Step 2: Submit the identical, moderately complex prompt to both, something requiring reasoning like 'Explain the trade-offs between solar and wind energy for a residential home in three paragraphs.' Step 3: Compare not just answer quality but response speed and any usage limits shown, noting which you would choose if you were paying per token.