Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification
THE SO WHAT
Effort controls on a cheap, fast small model make cost–latency–quality a tunable parameter, not a fixed trade. High-volume workflows — summaries, tagging, classification — can now be engineered like ad auctions, dynamically bidding up or down effort per request.
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