# Jumpshot AI — Episode 2: 2026-07-26
10 stories from AI/tech news today:
1. **Vercel's v0 Ships Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 at Half the Frontier Cost**
Vercel's v0 added Claude Opus 5 to its model picker the same day it launched, giving builders frontier-tier coding performance at half the cost of Claude Fable 5.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/vercel-s-v0-ships-anthropic-s-claude-opus-5-at-half-the-frontier-cost
2. **Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Matches Flagship Intelligence at Half the Price**
Opus 5 launches at the same price as Opus 4.8 while closing the gap to Fable 5, filling the mid-tier pricing hole Sonnet 5 had opened up for enterprises.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/anthropic-s-claude-opus-5-matches-flagship-intelligence-at-half-the-price
3. **Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Triples ARC-AGI-3 Scores at Half the Frontier Price**
Opus 5 (formerly codenamed Honeycomb) triples the next-best model's ARC-AGI-3 score while staying at Opus 4.8 pricing, approaching Fable 5-level reasoning for half the cost.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/anthropic-s-claude-opus-5-triples-arc-agi-3-scores-at-half-the-frontier-price
4. **vLLM's AFD Plugin Cuts DeepSeek-V3.2 Response Time by 47%**
A new vLLM plugin splits memory-bound attention layers from compute-bound expert layers onto separate hardware, cutting DeepSeek-V3.2 response times by 47%.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/vllm-s-afd-plugin-cuts-deepseek-v3-2-response-time-by-47
5. **Midjourney Acquires Co-Star to Build a Consumer Product Empire**
Midjourney, an independent 40-45 person company with $200M+ ARR, is acquiring astrology app Co-Star and bringing its founder on as Chief Design Officer.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/midjourney-acquires-co-star-to-build-a-consumer-product-empire
6. **Runway Agent Builds Entire AI Video Pipelines From Plain Language**
Runway's Agent can now build, connect, and configure entire node-based video Workflows just from a plain-language description, no manual node placement required.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/runway-agent-builds-entire-ai-video-pipelines-from-plain-language
7. **Vercel's v0 Turns Any Figma File Into a Full Working App**
v0 now explores an entire Figma file autonomously and builds a full multi-screen app, verifying each generated screen against the original design during development.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/vercel-s-v0-turns-any-figma-file-into-a-full-working-app
8. **Moonshot's Kimi Code Now Routes Subagents to Cheaper Models, Cutting AI Costs**
Kimi Code CLI 0.29.1 lets developers route routine subagent work to cheaper models while keeping a premium model on orchestration — the same pattern behind this show.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/moonshot-s-kimi-code-now-routes-subagents-to-cheaper-models-cutting-ai-costs
9. **Gemini 3.6 Flash Debugging Benchmark: It Can Fix Real Bugs, but Is It Efficient?**
An independent 13-task debugging benchmark found Gemini 3.6 Flash resolves bugs 92% of the time but ranks 7th of 9 models overall once real debugging cost is accounted for, not just token price.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/gemini-3-6-flash-debugging-benchmark-it-can-fix-real-bugs-but-is-it-efficient
10. **Sakana AI's Fugu-Ultra v1.1 Beats GPT-5.5 and Claude on Coding Benchmarks**
Fugu-Ultra v1.1 orchestrates GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, and Gemini as a 'learned conductor,' scoring 82.1% on TerminalBench 2.1 versus 78.2% for GPT-5.5 alone.
Source: https://alphasignal.ai/news/sakana-ai-s-fugu-ultra-v1-1-beats-gpt-5-5-and-claude-on-coding-benchmarks
