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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with agentic coding gains

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Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5, a step-change improvement for its Opus tier, enhancing long-running agents with gains in coding and professional work.

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  1. 2026-08-21 01:25 · Anthropic News
    Introducing Claude Opus 5

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