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TECHNOLOGY · SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 Claude Opus 5.5 Is Cheaper and Faster — But the Real News Is What Anthropic Led With On September 22, 2026, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 — its first new model since CEO Dario Amodei published an essay ten days earlier arguing the whole industry should deliberately slow down. It's 40 percent cheaper than Opus 5, runs about 30 percent faster, performs close to the pricier Fable 5.1 — and the launch announcement opened with an alignment score, not a benchmark.