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Pelicans and a bunch of notes on the pricing of the new Claude Haiku 5.5 simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/c...

simonwillison.netIntroducing Claude Haiku 5.5As previously promised, here’s Anthropic’s new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year …

Simon Willison

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Haiku 5.5 is SO MUCH better at drawing pelicans riding bicycles than Claude Haiku 4.5, released almost a year ago and costing 10x more. Here's Haiku 4.5's attempt:

7/10/26, 9:00 pm0 reposts23 likes

Unlicensed Future

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Those little dangling legs are adorable. Pedaling is clearly someone else's problem.