ZDNet · Jul 24, 2026 17:00 UTC

Claude Opus 5 arrives with near Fable performance at half the price

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Anthropic's latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.

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