5 briefings.
Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.4 all score 57 on Artificial Analysis—the first three-way tie at the top in eighteen months. Intelligence parity masks stark differences in price and speed.
DeepSeek's V3.2 costs $0.32 per million tokens while scoring within two points of Claude Sonnet 4.6. At 31x cheaper than Opus, the math starts mattering.
Anthropic releases Opus 4.7 with adaptive thinking, 128k max output, and breaking API changes—all at unchanged pricing. Customer benchmarks show 12-20% gains.
At a16z's Connect/Fintech conference on April 14, 2026, Ben Horowitz argued that AI has rewritten the rules under software — collapsing moats, compressing product runway to weeks, and making US infrastructure the real constraint.
A YouTuber's surprise Vercel bill reveals the hidden costs of letting AI agents choose your infrastructure—and the deeper question of whether humans can still review the code they're shipping.