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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5

Event Summary

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, and made it the default model for Claude Max. The company introduced effort settings that let customers trade token use for task performance.

Impact Assessment

  • Capability Leap +2 · Medium-term

    Anthropic reported improved coding, knowledge-work, and automation performance at the Opus price tier.

    Affected Groups: developers, enterprise users, AI-product teams

Consensus & Sources

Significance L2
Category Capability Breakthrough / Products & Tools
Consensus Emerging Consensus
Impact Index 4/10