Anthropic announced Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, positioning it as a new default on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro, available through Claude.ai, Claude Code, the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. The post highlights Opus 5's cost-effectiveness, with gr On benchmarks, Opus 5 is reported as state-of-the-art on Frontier-Bench v0.1 and GDPval-AA, more than doubling Opus 4.8's Frontier-Bench performance at lower cost per task, and reaching within 0.5% of Fable 5's peak on CursorBench 3.2 at max effort but at half the cost. Additional gains include 3x the next-best score o

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, positioning it as the most agentic Sonnet-class model yet, capable of planning, using tools like browsers and terminals, and running autonomously at a level that previously required larger, more expensive models. Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to the Opus tier, with perfor Claude Sonnet 5 is available immediately across all Claude plans — as the default model for Free and Pro, and available to Max, Team, and Enterprise — as well as in Claude Code and on the Claude Developer Platform, where developers can call it via the claude-sonnet-5 API endpoint. Introductory pricing is $2 per million

Anthropic redeployed Claude Fable 5 and restored access to Claude Mythos 5 on June 30, 2026, after US government export controls imposed on June 12 were lifted. Fable 5 access resumed July 1 across the Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, with Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise plans receiving Beyond availability, the post documents new safeguards and Anthropic's use of safety classifiers to detect potentially dangerous cybersecurity uses, and announces that Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners have begun developing a shared industry framework for assessing the severity of AI model

Anthropic's official Claude Help Center release notes, last updated July 24, 2026, document the Claude Opus 5 launch as a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price, and log a series of platform and developer-relevant updates including a new HIPAA co The same release-notes index also covers feature additions for end users and developers such as a Settings "Reflect" monthly recap in beta for Free, Pro, and Max plans, and Time and focus break reminders and quiet hours, alongside the model-launch and compliance changes. The page is structured as a month-by-month chang

On Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new product that company leaders describe as an AI workbench for scientific research.

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Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching ​an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model ‌even as it works to release its powerful, market-moving Mythos model to all customers ​in the coming weeks.

A Mythos-class model is expected in the coming weeks.