Anthropic rolls out Opus 5, aiming for Fable 5 parity with stronger safeguards

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a model pitched as close to Claude Fable 5 in many domains and stronger at coding, with enhanced cybersecurity safeguards versus Opus 4.8. Opus 5 is priced at $5 input / $25 output per million tokens, cheaper than Fable 5 and GPT-5.6, and offers a Fast mode for higher speed plus an automatic fallback to a lower-tier model when safeguards are triggered, targeting enterprise use and addressing regulatory scrutiny.
- Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities The Verge
- Introducing Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
- Anthropic's new AI model rivals Fable 5 and is cheaper as businesses fret about costs CNBC
- Anthropic debuts Opus 5 model as company preps for IPO later this year Yahoo Finance
- Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap Ars Technica
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