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Claude Opus 4.5 Released

Date: April 24, 2025
Company: Anthropic
Category: Models & Research

Narrative

Improved Opus with better reasoning speed. Extended thinking optimized to 2-5s. Computer use reliability 85%. Constitutional AI v4. $12/$50 pricing.

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Reality

Benchmarks marginal improvement over Opus 4. Latency reduction significant: thinking 60% faster. Computer use accuracy gains verified. Pricing reduction strategic. Quality maintained.

Implication

Demonstrated iterative improvement model vs big jumps. Latency optimization became competitive dimension. Pricing pressure from open models acknowledged. Quality vs speed tradeoff managed well.

Tags

  • anthropic
  • model-release
  • reasoning
  • pricing