Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol launch same day, raising safety questions
A post contrasts Anthropic releasing Opus 5.5 shortly after calling for the industry to slow down with OpenAI launching GPT-6 Sol and Luna the same day at 50% lower prices, and asks whether anyone has tested them.
anthropic just launched opus 5.5. their first model since dario personally called for the entire industry to slow down it performs at the level of fable 5.1 but costs 40% less to run. $4 input, $20 output per million tokens, down from opus 5's $5 and $25. output speed is also up 30% and openai dropped gpt-6 sol and luna the same day, cutting their own prices 50% these releases landed within hours of each other. dario's slowdown essay was in mid september, altman publicly backed it. that lasted about a week anthropic is calling this their most rigorously safety tested model yet, evaluated by outside groups like metr, with the same cybersecurity and biology safeguards previously reserved for their bigger flagship model has anyone actually tried it yet?