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Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
TL;DR
- Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Opus 5.
- Opus 5 is positioned as cheaper and less restrictive than Fable 5.
- It outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks.
- Opus 5 is not subject to the 30-day data retention policy affecting Fable and Mythos.
- Safeguards are present, particularly for cybersecurity tasks, but are less restrictive than Fable 5.
- Anthropic expects Opus 5's safety classifiers to engage 85% less often than Fable 5's.
- A new beta feature, Automatic Fallbacks, aims to provide functional responses instead of errors when safety classifiers are triggered.