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Model releases, deprecations, pricing moves, and capability changes from the major labs.

Claude Opus 5 pushes deeper into long-running agent work

Anthropic positions Opus 5 as a major improvement for coding, professional work, and agents that must stay coherent over longer assignments.

The program starts with 10,000 researchers and is intended to expand across science, mathematics, and engineering through 2027.