Leaks and early tests suggest Claude Opus 5 may be close to launch
量子位 · wechat · 2026-07-24
Leaked sightings and early user tests suggest Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 is close to launch, and the model appears to be strong in both 3D-like scenes and 2D image generation.
- Users shared examples including a detailed siege-catapult scene, a dynamic weather-card UI, a kitchen render, Minecraft-style reconstruction, and a PS5 controller SVG.
- Some observers say the model’s detail level and visual consistency are noticeably better than Fable 5 in side-by-side comparisons.
- Earlier hints reportedly appeared in Cursor and Google Vertex AI, including model names like claude-opus-5-thinking-high and a hidden routing path after a guardrail trigger.
- One poster says Opus 5 may be a cheaper alternative if it matches Fable 5 quality, since Fable 5 is priced at $10 / $50 per million tokens for input/output; but another claim suggests Opus 5 may burn through tokens quickly.
- There is still no independently verifiable benchmark, so the launch and real cost remain unconfirmed.
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