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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 with lower pricing and stronger agentic features

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechCrunch AI ·

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, offering improved agentic capabilities and safety at a lower price than Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro. The model targets developers building autonomous AI agents. Pricing details were not disclosed but Anthropic claims it's cheaper than competing models.

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The real test is whether Sonnet 5's lower cost and agentic features can lure developers away from entrenched rivals like OpenAI and Google.
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