Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5

Welcome to AI Toast!

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Opus 4.5 is here 🎉

• Google’s Gemini Pro plan is free for 18 months.

• Ship a real app in Google AI Studio

• Superhero Tools for writing

• Quick AI Toasts: Uncle Sam’s new AI device

Total read time: About 8 minutes, perfect for a quick Claude code break.

Claude Opus 4.5 is a quiet giant leap

Opus 4.5 ships production‑grade code, runs agents that finish, and uses your computer like a focused teammate. It’s priced to be used daily, not demoed once.

• Why it matters: Less backtracking, fewer dead‑ends, cleaner execution. In practice, that means multi‑day tasks compress to hours, and plans feel tighter without hand‑holding.

• Effort control = cost control: You can dial thinking from low to high. Medium effort matches Sonnet on key evals with far fewer tokens; high effort wins while still spending less. You pay for brainpower only when you need it.

• Tool use grows up: Programmatic tool calling, tool search across big libraries, and better examples make multi‑step workflows reliable. This is the difference between “cool prototype” and “run it every day.”

• Long‑run composure: Smarter context compaction and memory help it stay on task through long sessions. Thirty minutes of autonomous coding feels consistent instead of fragile.

• Safety, realistically: Prompt‑injection resistance improves. It’s not invincible, but the floor is higher apps are less likely to collapse under clever nonsense.

• You can build your own Chrome workflows like “Clean my inbox and triage into Notion” and Excel checklists like “What drives my Q3 revenue?” then “Increase growth by 2% and show NPV change.”

You can use it for production code, multi‑tool agents, spreadsheet/presentation automation, and desktop/browser control. If you mostly draft short content, Sonnet stays efficient; Opus is your lead‑engineer model.

Personal Take: $5 per million input tokens, $25 per million output. Available across apps and APIs, with longer runs and fewer intervention moments baked in. This is the leap we were all waiting for.

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Jio just made Google default for India

If you’re on Jio’s Unlimited 5G, you now get Google’s Gemini Pro plan free for 18 months. When AI shows up inside your phone bill, it stops being a “tool” and becomes infrastructure.

• What’s in the box: 

  • Gemini 3 access in the app

  • 2 TB Google One storage

  • Higher limits for image/video generation (Nano Banana, Veo fast)

  • NotebookLM upgrades

  • Gemini across Gmail, Docs, Vids, and dev tools

• Why this matters: Jio isn’t selling AI, it’s bundling it with the network. That’s a playbook used by telcos for decades (minutes, SMS, OTT), now applied to AI.

• AI becomes invisible. You’ll use it because it’s there inside email, docs, and search, not because you “opened an AI app.” With Veo-style video from text-plus-image-to-video pipelines, storyboards to output take hours, not weeks.

Personal Take: This era is the moment AI stops being a subscription and starts being a socket. You don’t pay extra for electricity in your room; you just plug in and create. Jio’s move drags AI into that same everyday utility zone. If you’ve got access, don’t “try AI.” Build with it.

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Superhero Tools (Writing)

• Claude: An AI assistant that helps with writing, deep reasoning, and coding.

• ChatGPT: A conversational AI for fast answers, drafting content, and code help.

• Grammarly: An AI writing assistant that fixes grammar, improves clarity, and tunes tone.

• QuillBot: A paraphrasing and writing tool to rewrite, check grammar, and simplify text.

• Writesonic: An AI platform to create SEO content and boost brand visibility in AI search.

Step‑by‑step way to build real apps in Google AI Studio

• Go to Google AI Studio and sign in with your Google account.
  Use your main Google account. If prompted, allow basic permissions so Studio can save and publish your app.

• Click the Build tab. This is where you describe the app and let AI Studio scaffold it for you.

• Pick Gemini 3 Pro Preview

• We are going to build a simple coffee app. Copy this below prompt into the Build tab. It tells AI Studio exactly what to generate

• Click Build and wait a few seconds. AI Studio creates the app with form controls, pricing, and summary.

• Preview: Try Latte → Large → Oat milk → Extra shot → Quantity 2. Watch the price change instantly. Place Order to see an order ID and a clean summary.

• Publish and share to Save to GitHub (optional): Authenticate, name the repo, and commit.

• Toggle Publish and copy the share link. Open the link in another browser or phone to check it works cleanly.

That’s it!

Prompt used:
App: Simple Coffee Order
Goal: Create a web app where a user chooses a coffee drink, size, add-ons, and quantity, sees a live price, and gets an order summary with a simple order ID. Include reset.
Menu:
- Drinks: Espresso, Americano, Cappuccino, Latte, Mocha
- Sizes: Small, Medium, Large
- Add-ons: Extra shot, Oat milk, Almond milk, Soy milk, Sugar (per unit, free), Chocolate syrup
- Quantity: 1–10

Pricing (USD):
- Base Small/Medium/Large:
Espresso 1.20/1.50/1.80
 Americano 1.00/1.30/1.60
Cappuccino 1.40/1.70/2.00
Latte 1.50/1.80/2.10
Mocha 1.60/1.90/2.20

- Add-ons:
Extra shot +0.40
Oat/Almond/Soy milk +0.25 (only one milk type at a time)
Sugar +0 per unit
Chocolate syrup +0.20

Features:
- Live price updates on every change (size, add-ons, quantity)
- Order Summary card: drink, size, add-ons, quantity, per-item total, order total
- “Place Order” button: validates drink + size, shows success toast and simple order ID
- “Reset” button: clears the form and summary
- Disable “Place Order” until drink + size chosen
- Mobile-first, clean layout; show a small “Est. total” near the button
- Always show totals as integers or two decimals consistently

Code:
- Vanilla web app or simple React (choose simpler)
- A pure priceCalc (drink, size, addons, qty) function; unit-test a few cases

Quick AI News Bites

• Sam Altman describes OpenAI’s forthcoming AI device as a calm and distraction-free gadget. It’s a simple, likely screenless, pocket-sized prototype designed with Jony Ive. Under two years to launch, focused on trust, context, and filtering noise.

• AI startups captured over 50% of venture funding in 2025. The US dominates with 85% of AI funding and bigger checks, but fewer deals. Humanoid robotics is hot; overall funding is up, and deal volume is down.

• ChatGPT’s new Shopping Research feature does deep comparisons and asks clarifying questions. It uses memory for tailored picks and can tie into Instant Checkout. Available across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro; quick access via “+.”

• Google, Accel partner to back Indian AI startups. At least 10 startups, up to $2M each, spanning entertainment, creativity, work, and coding. Part of Google’s $15B India data center plan. AI spending surges globally.

• Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business. Seeking approval to buy and resell power, de-risking long-term plant deals. Massive data center demand may require new gas plants, e.g., in Louisiana.

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