Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a new AI model that performs nearly as well as Claude Fable 5 (a more powerful model that was temporarily taken offline due to government concerns about its capabilities) and shows particular strength in complex coding tasks. Fable 5 was brought back online with enhanced cyber safeguards (security measures to protect against attacks) after negotiations with the US government.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970105/claude-opus-5-announced-anthropic-ai-model-release
First tracked: July 24, 2026 at 02:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%