Claude Opus 5 Released: Near Fable 5 Performance at Half the Cost
Claude Opus 5 has already been released.
In terms of capabilities, the model is almost catching up with the flagship Fable 5, while costing half as much.
Claude Opus 5 has already been released.
In terms of capabilities, the model is almost catching up with the flagship Fable 5, while costing half as much.
GLM-5.2 Chinese coding flagship announced with 1M token context, 131K output, improved reasoning and coding agents. API and weights arrive next week.
DeepSeek V4-Pro matches top open models, nears GPT-5.6. New features: OpenAI Responses API, three reasoning levels. Pricing: peak/off-peak with 50% off-peak discount. Available Aug 16, 2026.
Grok 4.5 matches or beats GPT and Claude while costing less. See token pricing vs GPT-5.6 and Opus 4.8 and why it pressures OpenAI and Anthropic.