Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, claiming near-frontier performance at half the price
claudeai · x · 2026-07-25
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5, describing it as a thoughtful, proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price.
The launch positions Opus 5 as a premium model with a sharper price-performance pitch than the prior frontier tier.
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