Tags: Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic announced Thursday that its latest large‑language model, Claude Opus 4.8, will roll out to customers this week. The company says the new version emphasizes "honesty," flagging uncertainty and avoiding unsupported claims more effectively than its predecessor. Early testers report a four‑fold drop in unnoticed coding flaws. Opus 4.8 also lets users dial the amount of computational effort the model spends on a task, helping manage token limits. A new "dynamic workflows" feature, launched in research preview, enables Claude to orchestrate hundreds of parallel sub‑agents and verify their output before returning results. Weiterlesen

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model that is four times less likely to overlook code errors and offers higher honesty in agentic tasks. The model rolls out across all Anthropic services at the same $5‑per‑million‑input‑token and $25‑per‑million‑output‑token rates. Early testers report gains in coding, legal, and data‑analysis workloads, while new features let users balance speed and quality. The release coincides with a $65 billion Series H funding round that values the company at $965 billion, and hints at a forthcoming Mythos‑class model that has already uncovered more than 10,000 critical software vulnerabilities. Weiterlesen