Anthropic calls for slowdown, ships Opus 5.5
Ten days after Dario Amodei urged the industry to pace AI development, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 — beating GPT-6 Astra on six of eight benchmarks at 40% lower cost.
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Ten days after Dario Amodei urged the industry to pace AI development, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 — beating GPT-6 Astra on six of eight benchmarks at 40% lower cost.
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