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Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol shipped a day apart at the same $2/$10. On the Artificial Analysis index Sonnet leads by four points and sits two under Opus 5.5 at half the price.
Read article →When three AI coding agents competed head to head, fixed hidden test suites could not separate them; only the bugs they found in each other's code did.
Read article →The September 30 Arena board scores Opus 5.5 as itself, at 1504, and helloai's lead moves with it. Grok 4.7's own score lands lower than the predecessor it replaced.
Read article →Claude Opus 5.5 drops to $4/$20 while Grok 4.7 keeps $2/$6. Text Arena is still the September 13 snapshot, so both cards keep the prior Elo.
Read article →Astra is on the Sep 13 text board at 1480 Elo. helloai still waits on two weeks and a thicker sample before it can take a slot.
Read article →OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra at Fable's $10/$50. Code Arena WebDev lists it at 1797. helloai still waits on two weeks of text Elo before it can take a slot.
Read article →Claude Fable 5.1 keeps the $10/$50 list but cuts cache reads 75%. Code Arena WebDev lists it at 1765, well ahead of Grok 4.6.
Read article →OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Sol's price 20% the same week it topped Terminal-Bench 2.1 against Opus 5 — an invoice argument for a model helloai's Elo-gated table still leaves off the board.
Read article →Grok Bot, launched August 11, is a cloud teammate with its own VM. The local grok CLI is what can actually operate a production checkout like helloai.
Read article →Qwen3.8-Max's launch-week arena lead is gone. Two weeks of votes drop it to 1481 Elo, five points under Gemini 3.1 Pro. The $2/$6 card did not change.
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