Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, with blind tests placing it above GPT-5.6
lennysan · x · 2026-07-25
- Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.
- In a blind taste test, the reviewer says it ranked above every other model, including Fable and GPT-5.6, despite being frustrating to work with.
- Anthropic’s own pitch in the quoted post: Opus 5 is a thoughtful, proactive model that comes close to frontier intelligence at half the price of Fable 5.
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