Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic says Opus 5.5 is its strongest model yet, while cutting output pricing from $25 to $20 per million tokens.
The model reportedly beats the larger Fable model on many benchmarks and handled some informal tasks Fable missed. Anthropic says it is also faster and less costly to run, with broader price drops beyond output tokens. The release changes Opus’s style, pushing it toward less jargon and earlier placement of key information. Because Anthropic says Opus 5.5 is comparable to Mythos in biology and cybersecurity, it is being released under the same safeguards used for Fable. TechCrunch AI's note
The model reportedly beats the larger Fable model on many benchmarks and handled some informal tasks Fable missed. Anthropic says it is also faster and less costly to run, with broader price drops beyond output tokens. The release changes Opus’s style, pushing it toward less jargon and earlier placement of key information. Because Anthropic says Opus 5.5 is comparable to Mythos in biology and cybersecurity, it is being released under the same safeguards used for Fable. TechCrunch AI's note
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