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AI Tools

Anthropic Opens 10,000 Free and Discounted Claude Seats for Scientists, Expands Research Credit Program

Anthropic is offering 10,000 free and discounted Claude Team seats to scientists at academic and nonprofit institutions, with pricing locked for one year. The company is also expanding its AI for Science credit program beyond biology to fields like mathematics and engineering, providing up to $50,000 in API credits per project. The move includes new model restrictions for life sciences and the beta launch of Claude Science workbench.

Aug 285 minNeura News
AI Models

Meta's Muse Spark 1.2, OpenAI's Model Unification, and the Push Toward Agentic Infrastructure Define August 5-6

Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 enters the top 5 on the Vals Index at $0.69 per test, claiming gold-medal-level STEM Olympiad performance and a 60%+ score on Finance Agent v2 at a fraction of competitors' costs. OpenAI unifies its ChatGPT models and expands the free tier, while the industry shifts toward agentic orchestration and cost-optimized inference routing. These developments signal a maturation of the AI market, where model quality, pricing, and serving capacity collectively determine adoption.

Aug 728 minNeura News
AI Models

Anthropic Launches First Mythos-Class AI Model Claude Fable 5

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful widely available AI model and the first from the previously withheld Mythos class. The company claims new safeguards make the release safe by blocking responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology, falling back to the Claude Opus 4.8 model. Pricing is double that of Opus 4.8, at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

Jun 93 minNeura News
Industry

Mercor CEO accuses Sequoia of dual-pricing valuation tricks

Brendan Foody, co-founder of AI talent platform Mercor, took to X to accuse Sequoia of using a 'dual-pricing' structure where it invests in two tranches at different valuations, inflating the headline number. Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire pushed back, calling it a market reality rather than a scam. The practice has drawn attention to how venture capital firms and founders manipulate perceptions of startup success.

Jun 95 minNeura News
Industry

Mercor Co-Founder Accuses Sequoia of Dual-Pricing Valuation Tricks

Brendan Foody, co-founder of AI talent platform Mercor, publicly accused Sequoia of using a dual-pricing structure that inflates headline valuations while the firm invests at a lower price. Foody said he has seen several rounds where Sequoia invests in two tranches at different valuations, with founders then misrepresenting the higher valuation to employees and angel investors. Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire defended the practice as rare and driven by market dynamics.

Jun 95 minNeura News