Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 4.5 AI Model with Improved Speed and Lower Costs
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Summary
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, their latest small AI model that offers similar coding performance to the previously state-of-the-art Claude Sonnet 4 but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed. The new model even surpasses Sonnet 4 in certain tasks like computer usage, making applications like Claude for Chrome faster and more useful. This advancement makes AI more accessible for real-time, low-latency applications such as chat assistants and customer service.
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· 4 pulledWhat was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster.
Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.
Claude Haiku 4.5 even surpasses Claude Sonnet 4 at certain tasks, like using computers.
These advances make applications like Claude for Chrome faster and more useful than ever before.
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