Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5, New State-of-the-Art at Half the Price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a model approaching Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price. It sets new state-of-the-art results on coding and knowledge work benchmarks like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, while trailing Mythos 5 on cybersecurity. It's the new default on Claude Max and strongest on Pro.
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