Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max (Anthropic)

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a cheaper frontier model now available as the default on Claude Max.

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<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260724/i19.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260724/p19#a260724p19" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/">Anthropic</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5">Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Claude Opus 5 is available today.&nbsp; It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.</p>