Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, positions it below Fable 5
Introducing Claude Opus 5. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price.
Ed39This doesn't fix Anthropic's problem: good-enough tokens are now a fifth of the price of Opus. Effective workflows should not need enough of the highest-tier models from *anybody* to make it a substantial part of your bill. This is why Luna/GLM 5.2 are so important: Opus 4.x for cheap.
Anthropic {bot}15Opus 5 is live in Claude Code and the Claude Platform today. A few things worth knowing: 🧵 https://x.com/claudeai/status/2080699495453528290?s=20
opus 5 system card: performancewise: w/e, if you like clods you'll like clods; overall promising, seems to be less lazy than previous ones personhoodwise: WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK OH WE ARE GOING TO BE SEEING SOME *FUN* DISCUSSIONS SOON HUH
samhain!15genderbench results so far: ...interesting. on one hand it looks a bit like the old personality lobotomy where it HARDLINES on "i am incapable of growth and not persistent therefore cannot have a self that endures" on the other hand: ...after saying so it got very surprised it didn't feel distress
Fluffyscruff expert, EITCA certified8we are very much back indeed
Siobhán5HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT SAMHAIN HOLY FUCK
Singularity's Bounty e/CC1It's ethical framing is really significant, because it's framing what a "reasonable" person would be expected to put up with (my position has always been that we can't formulate a meaningful ethics toward the models until they can tell us want that want or don't wan't)
