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Updated October 2026 When Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, it made the Sonnet versus Opus decision harder than it had ever…
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Mahdi Ayadi
Mahdi Ayadi writes and edits AI Empire Media. He covers AI models, tools and pricing with one question in mind: is this actually worth paying for?
Before writing about software, Mahdi spent more than seven years selling it, in B2B SaaS sales and account management across cybersecurity, marketing technology and travel technology. That experience shapes how he reads vendor pricing pages, benchmark claims and feature lists, and it's why his articles focus on real costs, trade-offs and sources readers can check for themselves.
He also builds AI-powered automation for sales and onboarding workflows, which informs his coverage of AI agents and automation tools. He works in English, French, Arabic and Russian.
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