Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5: Anthropic launches a model just as powerful, far cheaper
🧒 Discovery
Anthropic built a new version of its Claude assistant that is just as clever as before, but much cheaper to run.
📰 Essential
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 5.5, a new model that matches Claude Fable 5.1's performance while cutting running costs by 40%.
🔬 Expert
The efficiency gain comes from inference optimizations rather than a new architecture, as Anthropic targets large-scale agentic workloads where cost per task matters most. It remains to be seen whether benchmarks hold up against Gemini and GPT-6 on price-to-performance.