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Claude Opus 5.5: 40% cheaper, frontier-grade performance

This week was dominated by cost compression and gateway consolidation. Claude Opus 5.5 dropped with a meaningful price cut and no code changes required, while Vercel's AI Gateway absorbed four new…

  • Claude Opus 5.5 released with 40% cost reduction
  • Frontier performance comparable to Fable 5.1
  • Cache reads reduced by 60% to $0.20 per million tokens

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