TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.
Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.
Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.
That's nice. How does it handle long-context reasoning compared to Fable 5?
I've been testing it fully now for the last two days and it does pretty well, much better than Opus 4.8 and not as great as Fable, but pretty close to it.
Congrats on the launch. The price move matters more than the benchmark bump - halving the cost of the top tier is what decides whether long-running agents stay a demo or actually go to production. Nice work to the team.
My opinion about Claude 5 vs 4.8 is kinda mixed. Too soon for some solid opinion but I haven't noticed "wow" yet.
Very nice. Here's a comment generated by Opus 5 posted on a launch page for Opus 5.
Genpire
Love it! I now prefer Opus 5 over Fable 5. I’m working with a smarter model that is more accurate and detailed, while using fewer tokens!