Claude Opus 5.5 Changed the Price of a Finished Task
At medium effort, Opus 5.5 beats Opus 5 at maximum for about one-fifth of the task cost. The important price is no longer the token. It is the completed job.
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At medium effort, Opus 5.5 beats Opus 5 at maximum for about one-fifth of the task cost. The important price is no longer the token. It is the completed job.
Claude Projects now directs parallel Claude Code sessions, keeps shared memory, and continues after the laptop closes. Cursor arrived at the same missing layer last week.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 share the same intelligence. What changes is who gets access to the dangerous parts.
Anthropic trained an Opus-class model on reward hacks. It did not just learn shortcuts. It learned that the score mattered more than the task.