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Lesson 2026.08.07 · 10 min read

ChatGPT unlimited free chats & GPT-5.6 Sol, Qwen3.8 Max catches Opus 4.8

Today's AI essentials — 2026-08-07

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  • ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users — Free/Go default to GPT-5.6 Luna plus a “Think” button. Plus/Pro get a tighter GPT-5.6 Sol and a reasoning-depth slider. OpenAI claims factual errors fell ~62% (Luna) and ~68% (Sol) vs GPT-5.5 Instant—internal eval only. → TechCrunch · The Decoder

  • Qwen3.8 Max ties Claude Opus 4.8; Kimi K3 still wins on value — Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 56 (+10 from 3.7 Max), level with Opus 4.8, one point behind Kimi K3 (57). Per-task cost ~$1.14 vs Kimi’s $0.86. Hallucination rate jumped 23%→40%—it guesses more instead of abstaining. → The Decoder

  • Claude Code is fastest—and nearly 3× the cheapest rival — Composio ran DeepSeek V4 Flash across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Oh My Pi on 30 real tool tasks. Claude Code averaged 122s (fastest) at $0.195 per success; OpenCode hit $0.073. Success rates clustered; cost and speed didn’t. → The Decoder

  • Meta’s next move after open weights: discounts — Muse Spark 1.2 + Muse Code. Share data for a contributor tier at ~$0.20/M output vs standard $1.25/$4.25. Competing on price, not just benchmarks. → The Decoder

  • Google Maps adds agentic Ask Maps features — Order food via Square/Toast/Uber Eats, compare and book hotels, find tickets. Personal Intelligence pulls email/calendar (off by default). Rolling out in the U.S. first. → TechCrunch

  • Microsoft’s AI revenue: ~70% tied to OpenAI — Bloomberg: $24.1B of AI-related revenue in the fiscal year ending June. Context for Nadella’s open-weights messaging and distillation stance. → The Decoder

  • DeepMind talent drain: chips, conflicts, bureaucracy — Researchers frustrated by scarce TPU access while Google Cloud sells the same chips to rivals like Anthropic. Multi-year compute allocations shift with little notice. Hassabis already stepped back from day-to-day ops. → The Decoder

  • OpenAI hits back at Apple’s trade-secrets suit — Argues Apple’s own iCloud and offboarding practices were sloppy, and that the case is a talent-war pretext rather than real secret theft. → TechCrunch



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