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Anthropic ships Opus 4.8; Tencent model tops Claude; Groq seeks $650M

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Anthropic has released Opus 4.8, though details about its capabilities are scarce. Separately, a model developed by Tencent has surpassed Anthropic's Claude in performance on the OpenRouter platform. Meanwhile, Groq is reportedly seeking $650 million in funding following a partnership with Nvidia, and Liquid AI has trained a new edge Mixture-of-Experts model using an extensive 38 trillion token dataset. AI

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Anthropic ships Opus 4.8; Tencent model tops Claude; Groq seeks $650M

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    Anthropic ships Opus 4.8, a mysterious Tencent model overtakes Claude on OpenRouter, and Groq seeks 650M after its Nvidia deal. Plus Liquid AIs new edge MoE tra

    Anthropic ships Opus 4.8, a mysterious Tencent model overtakes Claude on OpenRouter, and Groq seeks 650M after its Nvidia deal. Plus Liquid AIs new edge MoE trained on 38 trillion tokens. https:// ai0.news/posts/2026-05-30-dail y-digest/ # AI # OpenSource # LocalLLM # Anthropic

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