Anthropic launches Opus 5
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Anthropic released Opus 5, a model smaller than its Fable 5 but cheaper and less restrictive while outperforming Fable 5 on several benchmarks. The model launched two months after Opus 4.8, and Anthropic reports its safety classifiers will engage 85% less often for Opus 5 than for Fable 5. Users now have access to a model with fewer restrictions and a new Automatic Fallbacks feature that routes blocked requests to a weaker model instead of returning an error.
Why it matters
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases
