Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Opus 5 model, details here
The new version arrives about two months after the previous Opus model upgrade, matching Anthropic’s previous upgrade cadence. Anthropic says Opus 5 offers near Fable 5 intelligence for half the cost Anthropic currently offers a lot of AI models under the Claude umbrella. The three main models are Haiku (smallest and cheapest), Sonnet (medium size and price), and Opus (largest and most expensive of the three).
- ▪The new version arrives about two months after the previous Opus model upgrade, matching Anthropic’s previous upgrade cadence.
- ▪Anthropic says Opus 5 offers near Fable 5 intelligence for half the cost Anthropic currently offers a lot of AI models under the Claude umbrella.
- ▪The three main models are Haiku (smallest and cheapest), Sonnet (medium size and price), and Opus (largest and most expensive of the three).
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- ▪ Anthropic launches Opus 5 — TechCrunch
- ▪ Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows — VentureBeat
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