Ten Cents Per Million Tokens: Haiku 5.5 and What It Means for Agent Economics
Published: October 9, 2026
Duration: 5:49
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 at ten cents per million input tokens with a one-million-token context window — the cheapest frontier-class model from either major US lab this year, dropped mid-IPO-roadshow. Also: the mathematics community is divided over OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof claim and a credit dispute that allegedly included a threat to a researcher's career, and vLLM has a critical RCE you need to patch.