Anthropic launches third Claude 5.5 model, expanding AI lineup before planned IPO


FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo, a keyboard, and a robotic hand in this illustration taken June 5, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo

Oct 7 (Reuters) - ⁠Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude ⁠Haiku 5.5, the third model ‌in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, expanding its artificial intelligence lineup ​ahead of a planned ⁠IPO.

Here are some ⁠details:

• Haiku 5.5 is built for ⁠tasks such ‌as classification, summarization andextraction, including live support, ⁠voice agents and in-app assistants. It costs ​75% ‌less than its predecessor, Haiku ⁠4.5.

• The ​new model is priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per ⁠million output tokens for ​prompts under 100,000 tokens, rising to $0.50 and $2.50, respectively, for longer prompts.

• The ⁠company said it is Anthropic's first Haiku with built-in safeguards for a narrow set of high-risk cybersecurity ​requests, and added ⁠that most everyday tasks would not ​be impacted.

(Reporting by Deepa ‌Seetharaman in San ​Francisco and Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)

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