AI's money is splitting in two right now: valuations are soaring into the trillions, while the cost of actually building keeps crashing. Three things landed for builders — and two of them you can act on today.
Here's the 2-minute video version if you want the quick pass first:
Anthropic filed a confidential IPO at a 965-billion-dollar valuation, topping OpenAI for the first time after a 65-billion-dollar raise.
Why it matters: the labs you pay for every day are heading to the public market. That usually brings pressure on pricing and packaging — so it's worth keeping an eye on what happens to your subscription costs and rate limits.
Follow-up to DeepSeek's earlier discounting: it just made the 75% cut on its flagship V4-Pro permanent.
Why it matters: frontier-grade coding just got about 4x cheaper, so it's a strong option to route bulk work to. One real caution though — it's a Chinese-origin API, so keep sensitive or proprietary code off it and reserve it for the work where that's not a concern.
OpenCode passed Cursor to become the most-used coding agent, with 172K-plus GitHub stars.
Why it matters: pair OpenCode (free) with cheap DeepSeek (87 cents per million) and you've got a real dev setup without paying for Claude's or OpenAI's top tiers. That's the practical takeaway from today's two-sided move: the labs are worth a fortune, yet you can build for almost nothing.
The money split two ways at once — valuations up, costs down. Watch today's full episode, or catch a new one every day on dani / AI News & Creative.