{"slug": "anthropic-releases-opus-5-with-close-to-fable-5s-capabilities", "title": "Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities", "summary": "Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Thursday, a model that the company says comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains and is much better at complex coding tasks. The model includes stronger cybersecurity safeguards than its predecessor, Opus 4.8, following government concerns over Fable 5. Anthropic is marketing Opus 5 to enterprise customers at the same price as Opus 4.8 ($5 input / $25 output per million tokens), half the price of Fable 5, and slightly cheaper than OpenAI's GPT-5.6.", "body_md": "Weeks after Anthropic’s latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI [security incident](/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai) that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5.\n\n# Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities\n\nAfter the government’s cybersecurity concerns, the company gave this model more cyber safeguards than the previous Opus model.\n\nAfter the government’s cybersecurity concerns, the company gave this model more cyber safeguards than the previous Opus model.\n\nThe company said in a release that Opus 5 “comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains” and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government’s ire, was [taken offline](/ai-artificial-intelligence/950412/anthropic-trump-adminstration-claude-mythos-fable-5-export-controls) for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then [brought back](/ai-artificial-intelligence/958964/anthropic-claude-fable-5-is-back) with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.)\n\nThe Fable 5 concerns — and the ensuing weeks of negotiations between Anthropic and the government — kicked off a new era of AI regulation for the Trump administration. Soon after, when [OpenAI released GPT-5.6](/ai-artificial-intelligence/957845/openai-gpt-5-6-trump-administration-ai-preview), it underwent a roughly two-week trial period of sorts, rolling out in limited preview solely to government-approved entities.\n\nAnthropic promises stronger cybersecurity safeguards with Opus 5\n\nWhen asked whether Anthropic ran Opus 5 by the Trump administration before this public rollout, Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Ghiglieri told *The Verge*, “We continue to work with our government partners to conduct their own independent testing of our models. This includes Opus 5.”\n\nAnthropic is marketing Opus 5 especially to its enterprise customers, saying it’s best for knowledge work and biology and that it’s the ideal everyday model, with Fable 5 still being best for the most ambitious types of work and long-horizon AI agent projects. But the company was careful to say in a release that it has stronger cybersecurity safeguards than its predecessor, Opus 4.8, and that it’s “the most aligned Opus model and is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse.”\n\nWith the new model’s release, the company also seems to subtly address recent controversies over allegedly hidden usage caps — which have led to [at least one lawsuit](https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/anthropic-faces-lawsuit-over-claude-150710669.html) — and the [AI money squeeze](/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue), or concerns that AI labs’ costs are being passed onto their customers in new ways. Per million tokens, pricing for Opus 5 is the same as its predecessor ($5 input / $25 output), and Anthropic made the point that it’s “half the price” of Fable 5. It’s also [slightly cheaper](/ai-artificial-intelligence/957845/openai-gpt-5-6-trump-administration-ai-preview) than OpenAI’s GPT-5.6.\n\nCustomers can also choose “Fast mode” for Opus 5 (a feature that’s being launched today in research preview), to get higher speeds for double the price. There’s also an option to opt in to automatic fallbacks to a lower-tier model when safeguards mandate that Opus 5 declines a user’s request.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-opus-5-with-close-to-fable-5s-capabilities", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970105/claude-opus-5-announced-anthropic-ai-model-release", "published_at": "2026-07-24 17:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 17:08:11.527735+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Opus 5", "Claude Fable 5", "OpenAI", "GPT-5.6", "Danielle Ghiglieri", "Trump administration"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-opus-5-with-close-to-fable-5s-capabilities", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-opus-5-with-close-to-fable-5s-capabilities.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-opus-5-with-close-to-fable-5s-capabilities.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-releases-opus-5-with-close-to-fable-5s-capabilities.jsonld"}}