Claude Opus 5.5 is out. First model in the 5.5 lineup.

2026-09-22 17:32

Claude Opus 5.5 is out. First model in the 5.5 lineup. Anthropic says it hits Fable 5.1 on most tasks, runs about 40% cheaper than Opus 5, and streams more than 30% faster. Price is $4 / $20 per million tokens. Opus 5 was $5 / $25. Cache reads dropped from $0.50 to $0.20. Terminal-Bench 4.0: 66.4%. CursorBench: 57.8%. Both ahead of Fable 5.1. Pro, Max, and Team get a higher five-hour cap. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are supposed to land in the next few weeks.

9router now routes decision models too

. Set one up on the system-one page and it goes through 9router like everything else, one place to manage and call it.

2026-09-23

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6-Pro. 309B MoE, MIT license.

46 on the AA Intelligence Index — first among open models, past Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max. DeepSWE v1.1 hit 72.6, trading blows with Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Same tier of intelligence, API costs 1/20 to 1/60 what overseas models charge. Not just a code model either. Native 3D spatial reasoning for multi-agent game building, Blender modeling, robotic arm control. Frontend, video, music, and PPT generation. Design Arena scores close to Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Same price as MiMo-V2.5-Pro, output cheaper than DeepSeek-4.1-flash. https://mimo.mi.com/docs/en-US/news/latest/v2-6

2026-09-22

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01