Anthropic launches Opus 5

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On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

Notably, Opus 5 actually outperforms Fable 5 on a number of benchmarks included in the announcement.

Opus 5 is launching only two months after Opus 4.8, which became available on May 28. Mythos 5, Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 all launched in June, leaving only the lightweight Haiku model still waiting for an upgrade to the 5 series.

In a post announcing the new model, Anthropic emphasized that Opus 5 was “much stronger at verifying its work and iterating carefully until it succeeds,” citing benchmark testing, in which Opus 5 wrote its own computer vision pipeline in response to an incomplete prompt, among other examples.

Crucially, Opus 5 is...

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