Edition No. 115 · Thu 15 Oct 2026 · Story 5 of 42

Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic

Anthropic's new small model is estimated to be about 75% cheaper to run than Haiku 4.5 and adds an adjustable effort setting for agent subtasks.

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