DigiNews

Summary

Claude Opus 5 is introduced by Anthropic as a powerful, cost-efficient model that approaches the frontier capabilities of Claude Fable 5 at about half the price. The release highlights strong performance across major benchmarks (Frontier-Bench, CursorBench, OSWorld 2.0) and notable gains in coding, automation, and scientific tasks, while also outlining alignment, safety safeguards, and deployment options. Pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with Fast mode and mid-conversation tool changes introduced alongside automatic fallbacks.