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Anthropic engineers Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang described the engineering behind the Claude Platform on the Latent Space podcast, covering the launch of Opus 5.5, an architecture that separates the model's "brain" from the agent's "hands," API scaling, and managed agents.
Why it matters: It offers a look at how Anthropic structures its platform to run agents on top of its models.
Written by AI from Latent Space's published text.
Background
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Anthropic
- Latest funding
- Growth · $65B · 28 May 2026
- Newest model on the API
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 Oct 2026 · $0.1 in / $0.5 out per million tokens
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“Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang join Latent Space to explain the engineering behind the Claude Platform: launching Opus 5.5, separating the model’s “brain” from the agent’s “hands,” scaling APIs, and building reliable managed agents. A new introduction ...”
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