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Claude Opus 5 release and capabilities
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, a hybrid reasoning model offering improved performance on coding and knowledge tasks at the same cost as Opus 4.8. The model achieves near-Fable 5 capabilities at half the price and is now the default on Claude Max and strongest model on Claude Pro.
- Released July 24, 2026; default model on Claude Max and strongest on Claude Pro
- 200K token context window by default; improved performance on coding and knowledge tasks
- Achieves Fable 5-level frontier intelligence at half Fable 5's price, matching Opus 4.8 cost
- Claude Code system prompt reduced by over 80% for Opus 5; hardcoded instruction prevents subagent use
- Extended thinking no longer shown to users by default
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I've already had to update the guide to which AI models to use that I wrote on Thursday to include Opus 5 and Codex's voice mode, both of which are significant & launched on Friday. Keeping up is challenging, even if you are following this…
In my testing, Opus 5 replaced Opus 4.8 for me, it was generally stronger in everything... except it shares some of the weird language quirks of Fable, including a love of density and FableSpeak.
I had access to Opus 5 before release and found it to be a good model if a quirky one. On shorter tasks, it could match or beat Fable levels of performance, at longer tasks it seemed less ambitious & would not deliver as complete a set of …
Insane numbers for opus 5, the power of faster iteration speed + scaled RL (Fable too big to RL as well, yet). And on safeguards "Based on our testing, we expect the classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5.".
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