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Early testing of Claude Sonnet 5 shows that its improved reasoning capability comes at the cost of consuming approximately 30% more tokens for the same prompt.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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7/2/2026
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Valid until: 9/30/2026(expired)
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Claude Sonnet 5 Imminent, GPT-4.6 This Week? A Wave of Frontier Model Updates
bilibiliNixAI6/22/2026
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