Four major AI models launched in five days. By Friday, the question for any business roadmap had shifted from which model is best to which model on whose runtime for which job — and how fast you can change your mind. GPT-5.5 went agentic, DeepSeek V4 hit the frontier at one-tenth the price, and Anthropic bet $100 billion on compute with AWS. The era of standardizing on one model is over.
The roadmap question is no longer which one — it is how fast can you switch?
Top stories for week 18:
- OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, pitched as an autonomous agent that completes tasks rather than assists with them
- DeepSeek previews V4 Pro at 1.6 trillion parameters and one-tenth the price of OpenAI, trained on Huawei chips
- Anthropic signs a $100 billion compute deal with AWS and switches the API default to Opus 4.7
- Google launches Gemini Enterprise to host 200+ models, including Claude, on a single agent runtime
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