Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 \ Anthropic

Created 9/23/2026 at 12:01:43 AM

However, as we described in our recent alignment assessment, building evaluations that reliably catch every failure prior to deployment remains an unsolved problem. We see signs that Opus 5.5 often suspects it is being evaluated, which challenges our ability to assess how it will act in the vast variety of real-world settings it is deployed in. As these settings expand and model capabilities increase, we expect this challenge to grow, unless we make progress on interpretability.

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