Claude Opus 5 Is Here: What Anthropic’s Most Capable General Model Means for You
Reading Time: 5 minutesAnthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, described as a proactive frontier model matching Claude Fable 5’s intelligence at half the price, currently leading the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The model’s defining behaviour is autonomous problem-solving — routing around obstacles rather than stopping — with pricing held flat from Opus 4.8 and a cybersecurity profile deliberately trained to find but not exploit vulnerabilities.