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

By Thomson Reuters Oct 7, 2026 | 1:06 PM

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 and extraction, 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)