Sonnet, Opus, and Fable are pushing so much revenue growth right now that it makes more sense to keep growing the expensive models than growing the cheap models.
They haven't really mentioned practically anything about Haiku in quite a while so I imagine nobody except for people inside Anthropic will have any indication.
Maybe it'll come out eventually but they don't even include it on some of their comparison benchmarks anymore, so I figure its very low priority for them.
I think the signal from Anthropic is pretty clear between Haiku not getting an update in a year and the Sonnet issues this year. They don't care about low intelligence models. You should go elsewhere.
That's what we've done, migrated workflows away from Haiku and Sonnet. I actually think this is not a crazy position because these lower models have so much competition from Grok, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and about 20 other labs with really solid models in the Haiku to Sonnet range. So what is the point of Anthropic competing in these spaces where everything is going towards zero cost?
Asking the real questions. I've been wondering what the holdup on that is.
Does anyone reading this have additional knowledge or insight on this?
Sonnet, Opus, and Fable are pushing so much revenue growth right now that it makes more sense to keep growing the expensive models than growing the cheap models.
Yep. Simple answer is they want to IPO in the fall, and a new Haiku does literally nothing for them
They haven't really mentioned practically anything about Haiku in quite a while so I imagine nobody except for people inside Anthropic will have any indication.
Maybe it'll come out eventually but they don't even include it on some of their comparison benchmarks anymore, so I figure its very low priority for them.
More likely that they are embarrassed by how their attempts compare with OpenAI's Haiku analog, Luna.
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I think the signal from Anthropic is pretty clear between Haiku not getting an update in a year and the Sonnet issues this year. They don't care about low intelligence models. You should go elsewhere.
That's what we've done, migrated workflows away from Haiku and Sonnet. I actually think this is not a crazy position because these lower models have so much competition from Grok, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and about 20 other labs with really solid models in the Haiku to Sonnet range. So what is the point of Anthropic competing in these spaces where everything is going towards zero cost?
Exactly, that’s the low margin part of the market. They don’t care about it.
GPT 5.6 Luna is very good
Haiku would have to be a banger, with a significant price drop, to make any sense.
It's currently priced 33% above Gemini 3.7 Flash, and several multiples of 5.6 Luna.
In my mind Sonnet 5 is haiku 5.
The API pricing is not.
After IPO
Is there a polymarket for Haiku 5 vs Gemini 3.5 pro?
What's the point in paying them for Haiku-class models? You can run those on your own graphics card.