Anthropic today launched the latest version of its Claude Haiku model, Haiku 4.5, the smallest, fastest and most affordable model in its family.
We’ve seen a flurry of new model releases from Anthropic in recent months, starting with the launch of Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 in May, followed by Opus 4.1 and, just a few weeks ago, Sonnet 4.5. What was missing from this latest generation of models was Haiku, which always offered a worthwhile trade-off between price, speed and model intelligence. The last generation of Haiku, version 3.5, launched at…








