Latent Space·· 8 d ago
[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
AI summary
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, calling it the first model in the new Claude 5.5 family, matching Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks at 40% lower running costs than Opus 5. It becomes the default model in Claude Code and the Claude app.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 88Second 88
AdmittedSum of both 176 ≥ twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：内容为Claude等AI模型发布与评测
- Why it was chosen
- Both labs released new models with substantial price cuts on the same day, enabling comparison of capabilities and costs per task.
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
Source: Latent Space · latent.space