--- title: In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a... description: Within a single week, OpenAI (GPT-5.6), xAI (Grok 4.5), and Meta (Muse Spark, its first paid model) all launched frontier models with one shared pitch: price.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/in-24-hours-openai-spacexai-and-meta-turned-ai-into-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-price-efcothylo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a race to the bottom on price | daily.dev og:description: Within a single week, OpenAI (GPT-5.6), xAI (Grok 4.5), and Meta (Muse Spark, its first paid model) all launched frontier models with one shared pitch: price.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-24-hours-openai-spacexai-and-meta-turned-ai-into-a-race-to-the-bottom-on-price-efcothylo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/efcOThYLo.png og:image:alt: In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a race to the bottom on price og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a race to the bottom on price **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Within a single week, OpenAI (GPT-5.6), xAI (Grok 4.5), and Meta (Muse Spark, its first paid model) all launched frontier models with one shared pitch: price. The analysis argues this signals a full-scale AI price war, with labs competing on token efficiency and cost rather than pure capability breakthroughs. Anthropic is taking the opposite bet, raising prices on its top coding model. For buyers, the real advantage lies not in loyalty to one model but in building a portable multi-model portfolio — routing tasks by cost-per-finished-task rather than cost-per-token, since agentic workloads can consume 150K–200K tokens per task. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@soapbravo** · 2 upvotes > It is the same always, anywhere. 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