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    Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5

    Madiha ImamSeptember 23, 2026 2 min read
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    Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Opus 5.5, a new AI model that it ​says delivers performance comparable to its top-tier Fable 5.1 while ‌costing 40% less to run thanits predecessor. The release lan…

    The release lands amid growing debate over AI risks. CEO Dario Amodei earlier this month called on ​the global AI community toslow down the pace​of releasing new capabilities to address safety concerns.

    Anthropic ⁠said Opus 5.5 underwent external testing by independent ​AI safety research groups Frontier Design and METR before launch ​and includes safeguards previously reserved for its most capable systems., Opus 5.5 outscored rival OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on a software ​development benchmark while costing roughly one-third as much ​to run.

    Read More:Trump says US will henceforth call AI 'super intelligence'Opus 5.5 is priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million ‌output ⁠tokens, 20% below Opus 5, Anthropic said. The model is available on platforms including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

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    The model also scored better than previous systems in internal safety tests ​and was about ​85% less ⁠likely than Opus 5 or Mythos 5.1 to attempt to bypass containment boundaries in ​a dedicated evaluation, the company said.

    Claude Sonnet ​5.5 ⁠and Claude Haiku 5.5 will be released in the coming weeks, the company said, bringing many of the same performance, ⁠speed and ​safety improvements. Anthropic is also expanding ​programs that give vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences researchers broader access to the ​model.

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    Written by Madiha Imam

    Aman-e-Pakistan Senior Journalist & Bureau Reporter

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