8 October 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 - the company's fastest model, about 75 percent cheaper than its predecessor on average

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model in the Claude 5.5 family for high-volume, low-cost tasks: summaries, classification, database queries and working as a coding subagent. According to the company, it is its fastest model ever, and using it costs about 75 percent less than Haiku 4.5 on average: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. It is the first Haiku with adjustable reasoning effort. Anthropic also halved the price of cache reads for Sonnet 5.5 and is introducing a monthly API credit: $100 for Max 5x subscribers, $200 for Max 20x and up to $500 for Team.

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GPT-6 comes to ChatGPT with an "intelligent interface" - answers with charts, buttons and tools

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Anthropic stripped the safeguards from China's GLM-5.3 model for about $4,400

Anthropic researchers removed the safeguards from GLM-5.3, an open-weights model from the Chinese company Z.ai, using abliteration - a modification of the weights after which the model refuses harmful requests far less often. In three public tests, the refusal rate fell from over 90 percent to 3, 2 and 12 percent, respectively. The model's capabilities barely changed, and the whole operation cost about $4,400.

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