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Sonnet 5.5 Ambushes Opus as OpenAI Teases GPT-6
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with strong capabilities in coding and image understanding.
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š„ What happened
Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5.5 ā benchmarks show it nearly matches Opus 5.5 on coding and crushes image/chart understanding. Meanwhile, OpenAI teased a new model at DevDay, and GPT-6 Astra is dominating browser-based tasks by a wide margin.
š” Why it matters
Sonnet 5.5 could flip the coding price-performance curve: $20 users now get near-Opus quality. But Astra signals that computer-use is the new benchmark battleground ā and OpenAI owns it. The gap between coding and real-world agent tasks is widening fast.
ā” Our take
Anthropic's .5 trick is working, but OpenAI is playing a different game: agents that actually use computers. If you're only watching coding benchmarks, you're missing the real shift.
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