Anthropic's Haiku 4.5 and Google's Veo 3.1

17 Oct 2025

Reuters and The Neuron report that Anthropic is scaling quickly: the company is on track to hit roughly $9B in ARR this year and — per the coverage — is targeting about $25B in 2026. The newsletter says Anthropic has already been in talks with MGX for another funding round despite raising $13B last month.

Product news accompanies the financial update. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, which the newsletter says matches the coding performance of Claude Sonnet 4 while running at roughly one‑third the cost ($1/$5 per million tokens) and at about twice the speed. Haiku is described as powering Claude for Chrome and the Explore subagent, and supports parallel orchestration of multiple instances.

At the same time Google launched Veo 3.1 for video generation — with character consistency (upload up to three reference images), longer chained clips, keyframe control (start/end images), and post‑generation edits — available via Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, and Flow. The writeup frames both moves as part of a race to deliver faster, lower‑cost frontier models to broaden adoption among indie devs and small teams.

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