Opus 5.5 Release and Sarcasm on "Progress Slowdown"

Anthropic released the Opus 5.5 model. The post ironically notes that this is what "slowing down progress" looks like in the eyes of CEO Dario Amodei.
⚡️ Opus 5.5 has been released
(Yes, yes, if you didn't know, the slowdown of progress in Dario Amodei's eyes looks like this)
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