PANews, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Anthropic on Monday unveiled a new AI model, Claude Sonnet 5.5, positioning it as a faster, lower-cost product that it says outperforms its predecessors in programming, completing well-defined tasks, and creating documents, slideshows, and spreadsheets, according to official sources. With the launch of the more expensive Opus 5.5 less than a week away, Anthropic also said that the series' cheapest Haiku 5.5 is coming soon. Anthropic said that Sonnet 5.5 does not advance the frontier of model capabilities, and its alignment tests are mainly for risks that apply to models at any capability level. However, Sonnet 5.5 is significantly more cybersecurity capable than its predecessor and is the first Sonnet model to be introduced with similar back-up protection and cybersecurity measures.
PANews September 29 news, according to official sources, Anthropic released a new AI model Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, positioned as a faster, lower-cost product. Anthropic says it outperforms its predecessor in programming, completing well-scoped tasks, and creating documents, slides, and spreadsheets. The release comes less than a week after the launch of the more expensive Opus 5.5, and Anthropic also said that Haiku 5.5, the cheapest in the series, is coming soon.
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 does not advance the frontier of model capabilities, and its alignment testing mainly targets risks applicable to models at any capability level. However, Sonnet 5.5's cybersecurity capabilities are substantially improved over its predecessor, making it the first Sonnet model released with similar safeguards and cybersecurity measures. Sonnet 5.5 is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, half the price of Opus 5.5.