AI startup Anthropic is gearing up to release its next major AI model. The upcoming model is a “hybrid” that can switch between “deep reasoning” and fast responses. The company will reportedly introduce a “sliding scale” alongside the model to allow developers to control costs, as the deep reasoning capabilities consume more computing. It outperforms OpenAI’s o3-mini-high “reasoning” model on some programming tasks. The model is also said to excel at analyzing large codebases and other business-related benchmarks.