Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an Opus-class upgrade that raises coding accuracy, sharpens agentic reasoning, extends how long the model can run autonomously, and improves honesty about its own errors. Opus 4.8 builds on Opus 4.7, is available today at the same price, and can be accessed directly from Anthropic and via AWS. New workflow features and clearer uncertainty signals let developers run longer autonomous agents and rely on more transparent self-assessments, reducing debugging effort and improving suitability for professional knowledge work.
Opus 4.8 is here!! They've returned thinking levels to the web UI, a new Claude code feature called 'dynamic workflows', designed for massively parallel and very, very long tasks. The model is supposedly much more honest, more 'aligned' than 4.7 Oh and they're dropping mythos in a few weeks.
tachikoma11feels like the rate of releases is speeding up, i could/should ask Claude to crunch the numbers to verify that
Krishna5“[We]… expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks” 👀
godoglyness4Holy moly she ain't kidding
Latte macchiato3Finally the adaptive thinking BS is gone
The year is 2030. Claude Opus 6.9 and GPT-6.7 can cure cancer and solved every open Erdos problem. The fact Google Search still uses some crappy quantized model is used as proof AI is worthless.
Lava monster7This will always be a good reason to make fun of Google though, because chances are decent Search will somehow be even worse in 2030 no matter how good AI tech is by then.
Satisfied Psychic3"Professional AI does amazing things and free consumer-facing AI remains absolute dogshit" seems like a pretty safe prediction right now.
Sarama Burwani @ 7.52the last official release of Grok before XAI closed up shop turned out to have a diaper fetish. Ed Zitron is conspicuously silent on this
