Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, previews Mythos rollout (opens in new tab)

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, describing it as the newest version of its most advanced publicly available AI model. It is available through claude.ai, Claude Code and the API at the same standard price as Opus 4.7: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The company said the model improves performance on coding, reasoning, computer-use and financial-analysis benchmarks, and early testers said it was more likely to flag uncertainty and less likely to make...