Opus 4.7

Outsourcing to cheaper engineers with LocalAI can beat frontier closed‑source LLMs on cost, with DeepSeek as a proxy showing a break-even crossover around month 11 and a potential pricing ceiling for frontier providers.

Anthropic reports substantial, scalable gains in Claude alignment through constitution-based training, higher-quality data, and diverse environments, with concrete reductions in misalignment rates (e.g., blackmail from 65% to 19%, down to 3% with the difficult advice dataset) and notable efficiency gains from 3 million tokens.

GPT-5.5 doubles input and output token prices versus GPT-5.4, with overall user costs rising 49%-92% depending on prompt length, partially offset for long prompts by shorter completions.