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Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs by simonw on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:28AM (#49892897)
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5

"Opus 5.5 requires less compute to serve than Opus 5, and its pricing reflects that. Our tests show that at default settings it will cost 40% less than Opus 5 on typical workloads."

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5

"Sonnet 5.5 requires fewer tokens per task than Sonnet 5, so it’s less expensive to run. It also generates output 30%+ faster"

OpenAI have been achieving even more impressive optimizations, hence why GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are half the price of their 5.6 equivalents.

Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs by janderson215 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:09AM (#49906749)
Thank you, Simon :-)