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Anthropic Dropped Claude Haiku 4.5 for the Budget-Conscious

Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 4.5 on October 15 as the faster, cheaper sibling to Sonnet 4.5. Enterprise-grade coding and reasoning, now accessible without breaking the bank.

The company even opened a pop-up café in New York to promote Claude. Nothing says "trust our AI" like serving overpriced lattes with your chatbot demos.

When AI companies start opening coffee shops, the marketing game just got caffeinated.

OpenAI and Broadcom Signed a Multi-Billion Dollar Chip Deal

October 13 brought the announcement: OpenAI and Broadcom are partnering on custom AI accelerator chips for future data centers. First deployments hit 2026.

OpenAI's making its move toward hardware independence. When you're spending billions on chips, you stop renting from Nvidia and start building your own.

The AI infrastructure wars just escalated.

Apple's M5 iPad Pro Flexed 3.5x Faster AI Performance

October 15 brought the M5 iPad Pro with a supercharged Neural Engine and GPU delivering 3.5 times faster AI performance than previous models.

Mobile on-device AI just got significantly smarter. Your tablet can now run models that used to need a data center.

Salesforce Launched Agentforce 360 at Dreamforce

Dreamforce on October 14-15 unveiled Agentforce 360: integrated agentic AI for enterprise automation, hybrid reasoning, voice interaction, agent governance, and multi-agent orchestration.

Salesforce is betting big that AI agents will run your business. When the CRM giant goes all-in on autonomous agents, enterprise software just got a lot less manual.

Reflection AI Raised $2 Billion for Open-Source AI

October 9-10 brought Reflection AI's massive $2 billion Series B at an $8 billion valuation. Nvidia, Google Ventures, Sequoia, and DST Global all jumped in to fund open-source frontier models.

The round signals investor conviction that open science can compete with OpenAI's closed approach. When ex-DeepMind researchers raise $2 billion for open models, the AI power balance might be shifting.

Kailera Raised $600M to Take on Eli Lilly's Weight Loss Empire

October 15: Kailera Therapeutics secured $600 million led by Bain Capital, with backing from Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, Canada's pension plan, and Royalty Pharma. Their dual GLP-1/GIP drug showed 18% average weight loss and heads to global Phase 3 trials.

Obesity drugs keep attracting massive capital. When sovereign wealth funds bet this big, the market potential is enormous.

Campfire Grabbed $65M to Kill Legacy ERP Software

October 15 brought Campfire's $65 million Series B led by Accel and Ribbit to scale AI-native ERP software. They're betting fully intelligent business automation can replace clunky legacy platforms.

When startups raise $65M to attack SAP and Oracle with AI-first tools, enterprise software dinosaurs should be worried.

TL;DR: That's your week. AI got cheaper and faster, chips got custom-built, iPads got smarter, agents took over enterprises, and legacy software faced new challengers. The future keeps accelerating.

Cheers,
Oleg👊

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