Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available everywhere today at $3/$15 per million tokens, the same price as Claude Sonnet 4. It leads OSWorld at 61.4% and maintains focus for more than 30 hours on complex tasks.
What shipped in AI, week of September 29, 2025
9 deployments dated September 29 to October 5, 2025 are in The Deploy Log: 3 leads, 4 in Models and APIs and 2 in Tools and products, from 4 publishers. They include Claude Sonnet 4.5 from Anthropic, Instant Checkout from OpenAI, Sora 2 from OpenAI, Qwen3-8B agent speedup from Hugging Face, RTEB benchmark from Hugging Face and 4 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Instant Checkout
U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can now buy directly from U.S. Etsy sellers in chat, with over a million Shopify merchants like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx and Vuori coming soon. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is open sourced today.
Sora 2
Sora 2 is a video and audio generation model with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, more accurate physics, and a characters feature that inserts a recorded person into generated scenes. The Sora iOS app is available to download now with initial rollout in the U.S. and Canada.
Models and APIs
Qwen3-8B agent speedup
OpenVINO.GenAI accelerates Qwen3-8B generation by about 1.4x on Intel Core Ultra using speculative decoding with a depth-pruned Qwen3-0.6B draft model.
RTEB benchmark
RTEB is a new retrieval embedding benchmark in beta that combines open and private datasets across 20 languages and domains like law, healthcare, code, and finance, using NDCG@10 as the default metric.
Sora 2 System Card
Sora 2 is available via sora.com, in a new standalone iOS Sora app, and in the future it will be available via the API, with initial access rolling out through limited invitations.
dots.ocr on-device
Hugging Face converted dots.ocr, a 3B parameter model that surpasses Gemini 2.5 Pro on OmniDocBench, to Core ML and MLX, but the initial conversion is over 5GB and slow.
Tools and products
uv Python builds
Vercel now uses uv as the default package manager for all Python builds, making builds 30-65% faster and adding support for uv.lock and pyproject.toml dependency files.
Parental controls
OpenAI launched parental controls for ChatGPT, letting parents link accounts, set quiet hours, disable voice, memory, image generation, and opt out of training.
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