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Case studyEric YuanZoomCase studyJensen HuangNVIDIACase studyTobias LütkeShopifyNewsAnthropic ships Claude Opus 5 — near-top-tier performance at half the priceThis is a direct lever on your AI cost/quality tradeoff: you can now run agentic coding, research, and computer-use workflows at Fable-class quality without paying flagship prices. If you build product features or internal tooling on Claude, re-benchmark your prompts on Opus 5 — the same output at 1/2 to 1/3 the token cost drops your unit economics. The rapid tiered release cadence also means pinning to one model is riskier; design your stack to swap models easily.NewsMoonshot releases Kimi K3, the largest open-weight AI model to dateFounders wary of per-token API lock-in can route to (or self-host) a top open-weight model for more control over cost and data, or test it cheaply via OpenRouter before committing to a closed frontier vendor.NewsOpenAI launches GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) with big efficiency gainsA three-tier lineup lets you route by job: Luna for cheap high-volume calls, Sol for coding and heavy reasoning, keeping spend proportional to value. The claimed 54% coding-token efficiency directly cuts the cost of AI-assisted development and any code-generation feature you ship. Combined with the Claude Opus 5 launch the same month, this is a genuine price/performance step-down — a good moment to re-price your AI feature margins.NewsOpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI for pre-merge vulnerability scanningLean teams can wire automated vulnerability scanning into their commit and CI flow to catch security issues before merge, though production use still requires OpenAI beta access to the backend scanner.NewsSR&ED enhanced 35% refund now covers first $6M of R&D spendFor an incorporated Canadian founder doing product or technical R&D, this roughly doubles the refundable cash you can pull from SR&ED even before turning a profit, since the enhanced credit is refundable from year one. Track eligible salaries, contractor costs, and materials carefully and file the SR&ED claim with your T2 to capture the larger refund.NewsxAI ships Grok 4.5, an 'Opus-class' coding model at $2/$6 per M tokensFounders get a near-frontier coding and agent model at a fraction of Opus/GPT pricing, cutting the token cost of AI-built features, prototypes, and internal automation.ToolClaudeClaude is a conversational AI assistant that can write, edit, summarize, analyze documents, code, and reason through problems. It works via chat, and Claude Code brings the same model into a developer terminal.ToolMakeA visual, no-code/low-code automation platform where you build multi-step workflows ('scenarios') on a drag-and-drop canvas connecting your apps and APIs.TermMVP (Minimum Viable Product)The simplest version of your product that delivers core value and lets you test key assumptions with real users.AI advisorInnovator EddieInnovation & rapid prototypingAI advisorLonghaul LeonResilience & long-term buildingAI advisorMaster JiroProduct perfection & kaizenAI advisorMoonshot EliFirst principles & radical scaleAI advisorProfessor EmmettPhysics, science & deep techAI advisorStack StanArchitecture & tooling