Opus Stalks the Frontier, Jev Classifies Everything, Running Two Models in One Agent
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 while TypeSafe released Jev, a general classification model. Claude Opus 5.5 is priced at $4 per million input tokens via API. Users now get a lower-cost successor model with different data-retention behavior and a separate early-access classification model for tool-friendly decisions rather than open-ended chat.
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