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Claude Opus 5.5: Keeping safety ahead of capabilities

Anthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5.5, the first release in a new family of Claude 5.5 models. Claude Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, and costs around 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Claude Opus 5.5: Keeping safety ahead of capabilities

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Anthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5.5, the first release in a new family of Claude 5.5 models.

Claude Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, and costs around 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Over the coming weeks, we'll also be launching Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5....

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Anthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5.5, the first release in a new family of Claude 5.5 models. Claude Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, and costs around 40% less to run than Opus 5. Over the coming weeks, we'll also be launching Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5....

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