Anthropic Releases Opus 5.5, OpenAI Unveils New Models

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Welcome to the podcast. We have two big model drops today from both Anthropic and OpenAI. I want to break down what these new models are doing and, you know, how much of a big deal they are. The first one is coming from Anthropic. They just launched Claude Opus 5.5.

The big headline, I think, on it is that it is a 20% price cut and it is better than, you know, the previous Opus models. Obviously, apparently, it's better than Fable 5 in certain benchmarks. There's a bunch of interesting things going on there. We also have OpenAI that has just shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna, so that's their two, I don't want to say like worst models, but like not the, not their number one model, but their number two and number three models. That is also going to be half the API prices of the 5.6 series models. So better models, cheaper prices, but both of these cases aren't there like big frontier models. It's not their number one models. It's just the smaller models that are more efficient and faster and cheaper. So we're going to get into what everyone is saying about them on X. One thing I wanted to mention is every single week, I have a school community called AI Hustle, where I talk about how I grow and scale my businesses using AI tools. It's all the stuff I can't share publicly. If you've ever wanted to start a business with AI or grow an existing business that you have with AI tools, I'd love for you to go check out the AI Hustle School Community. It's in the description. I'll leave a link. We have about 1300 members and it is an amazing place. People are sharing some really incredible insights about what they're working on, their businesses. We share all the juicy stuff we can't share publicly, the revenue numbers, the workflows.

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Okay, let's talk about what's going on with Anthropic. What's interesting on this new model that they've put out is that the output tokens are going to drop from $20 per million, or they're going to drop to $20 per million from $25, so that's a 20% price improvement. This new model is also going to be better than the larger Fable model on a bunch of different coding and knowledge tasks. A lot of times when they're announcing these things, it's kind of their internal benchmarks. So I would just say, you know, a word of caution there, not necessarily something that's going to be, you know, universally agreed upon. A lot of times when they drop the model, they just like to tell everyone how good they internally have found their model. You know, I'm not saying they're doing that for this. It's kind of common. One thing that is interesting, though, Opus 5.5 is coming out just two months after Opus 5, which was in July 24th, that came out. So I mean, they're making pretty solid and steady improvements on the models. Two months later, they have, you know, after five, they have 5.5. So they are moving. They're really pushing, as far as a company that's trying to quote unquote, pace the frontier. It feels like they are moving at a really fast speed. Sonnet 5.5 and 5.5 Haiku are also going to come in the coming weeks and they both will apparently have very similar improvement. What's interesting to me and also, I don't know, I actually don't love this is the fact that, and maybe it just goes to show like how drastically different the training process is for the models or maybe the data sets that they're using. But the thing I don't love is that we went from Anthropic having like three models, three different tiers, you know, low, medium, high. And inside of each tier, you can kind of like crank up the intelligence level. And then now we have added the whole new level, which was we went from just having, you know, Haiku, Sonnet, Opus. Then we added Fable. And on top of that, we have Mythos, which is like the super hacking coding one that, you know, no one could get access to. Anyway, so really Anthropic has like five models out there, although I suspect that Mythos and Fable are like some variation of the same model just with different guardrails or limitations. But they give them different names. So it's like, no, don't worry. We only give the dangerous one to people that are approved. But in any case, I mean, they basically have five models, and it gets really annoying and complicated when you're trying to remember the names. OpenAI was accused of this for a very long time because we had GPT-3 and GPT-35, and then we had all sorts of random names in there. GPT-4, like, I mean, it just, it got a little ridiculous with the naming conventions. And so it seems like OpenAI is copying Anthropic in a sense that they have kind of the small, medium, and large model sizes. It feels like Gemini did the same thing. So we have kind of the same, I guess we have the same idea. And I do appreciate that OpenAI, it feels like for what it's worth, they sort of branded down to like, kind of their like, Soul and Tear and Luna and Astra. So I guess they have four models too.