DAILY AI BRIEF  — Sept 23

OPENAI :
- GPT-6 Sol and Luna rolled out in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu.
- API prices are 50% below GPT-5.6 promo: Sol $2/$10, Luna $0.10/$0.50 per 1M tokens.
- Free and Go can try Luna in the desktop app. Prompt Caching Dashboard and explicit cache breakpoints also shipped.

ANTHROPIC :
- Claude Opus 5.5 is out, first of the 5.5 family. Fable 5.1-level on most tasks, ~40% cheaper and ~30% faster than Opus 5.
- Platform pricing is $4/$20 per 1M tokens. Cache reads drop to $0.20. Fast mode goes up to 2.5x at $8/$40.
- Pro, Max, and Team get higher 5-hour limits plus a banked reset in Settings through Oct 22. Mobile reset still pending.

SPACEXAI :
- Grok in Tesla now runs Connectors: inbox, calendar, files, and chats, hands-free.
- Bot can place coffee orders, book reservations, and set appointments. SuperGrok Heavy first, more tiers later.

CURSOR :
- Opus 5.5 is live and tops CursorBench at 57.8% Max, 40% less per task than Opus 5.

PERPLEXITY :
- Sol is the default Light model in Computer. Opus 5.5 is the Standard effort.

DIGITALOCEAN :
- Managed Agents public preview: isolated microVMs, 16k+ tools, pause/resume in ~305 ms.

ALIBABA :
- Qwen-Image-2.1 is #1 open-source in Arena Image Edit and Text-to-Image.

XIAOMI :
- MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash shipped. Pro is MIT open-weight and sits at 46 on AA, matching Grok 4.7.

DEEPSEEK :
- China reportedly opened a data-security probe into DeepSeek and Moonshot after Anthropic alleged Claude traffic routing. Independent verification is still pending.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.