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Anthropic is cutting costs on its Claude lineup, launching Fable five point one and Mythos five point one with pricing that's roughly twenty-five percent lower on average and up to forty-five percent cheaper for complex agentic tasks. The company says the savings come largely from reduced charges on cached data, a move clearly aimed at enterprise customers who've been pushing back on costs.
Speaking of enterprise spending, AfterQuery has reportedly become Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn, reaching a three point two billion dollar valuation just five months after its Series A priced the AI model-training startup at three hundred million. That's roughly a tenfold jump in under half a year, which tells you something about where investor appetite for AI infrastructure sits right now.
And on the hardware side, Supermicro is now selling a desktop workstation built around Nvidia's GB three hundred Grace Blackwell Ultra superchip for just under ninety-three thousand dollars before tax and shipping. You get seven hundred forty-eight gigabytes of combined memory and up to twenty petaflops of FP four performance — numbers that would have described a data center rack not long ago, now sitting on a desk.
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