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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with double performance at same price

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, featuring a significant price reduction and performance improvements. The new model is available at the same price as its predecessor, Opus 4.8, but offers double the performance on certain benchmarks. It also demonstrates enhanced capabilities in complex tasks, such as solving a FreeCAD problem that competing models struggled with. AI

IMPACT Sets new SOTA on complex reasoning tasks and offers significant cost savings, potentially accelerating enterprise adoption.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with double performance at same price

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Remocn ·

    Making a launch video for Claude Opus 5

    <p>Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 today. Nobody asked us for a video, so we made one anyway — fifty-five seconds, twelve beats, every claim on screen lifted from the launch post itself. This is the hardest kind of unofficial spot to get away with: the brand is one most people lo…