Claude Opus 5 arrives with near Fable performance at half the price
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- Opus 5 targets coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows.
- Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality.
- Developers get faster output and smarter tool controls.
To the surprise of no one, Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5. After releasing the controversial Mythos 5 and Fable 5 last month and Sonnet 5 on July 1, it was inevitable that Opus would be bumped from 4.8 to 5. That's happening today.
I've been impressed with Opus 4.8. I've been using it for a number of large coding projects, and it's handled them quite well. But based on limited user reports, it's likely that Claude Code will get another big boost.
I'm not the only one impressed with...
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