Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute
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Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, a vision-language model that outperforms Claude Fable 5 on many benchmarks while costing less to run, achieving the top score on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index. The model costs $2.03 per task on average, sits between Fable 5 ($2.75) and GPT-5.6 Sol ($1.54), and is available to Claude Max ($100-200/month) and Claude Pro ($20/month) subscribers. This update addresses longtime user complaints about Fable 5's frequent refusals, high cost, and data retention policies, making a capable model accessible to more developers at lower prices.
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