Anthropic's current flagship Opus model for complex agentic work, enterprise workflows, advanced coding, and demanding reasoning. It is a proprietary, API-accessible model with a 1M-token context window.
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New Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude. Claude Mythos Preview has helped our researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms—the mathematical methods that are
New Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude. Claude Mythos Preview has helped our researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms—the mathematical methods that are used to keep data private. Read more: https://t.co/TYKLjb3Q7V
On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA , Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Performance and cost-effectiveness Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The charts in this section show how performance changes according to the model’s effort setting, which customers can use to optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for f
Introducing Claude Opus 5 Product Jul 24, 2026 Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
Introducing Claude Opus 5. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. https://t.co/GQWhcq2CQL
On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA , Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Performance and cost-effectiveness Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The charts in this section show how performance changes according to the model’s effort setting, which customers can use to optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for f
On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA , Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Performance and cost-effectiveness Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The charts in this section show how performance changes according to the model’s effort setting, which customers can use to optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for f
We asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a stab at the Riemann hypothesis. It didn’t solve it, but it did make strides on a related problem: it increased the lower bound for the fract
We asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a stab at the Riemann hypothesis. It didn’t solve it, but it did make strides on a related problem: it increased the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis from
X/Twitter@AnthropicAIAnthropicannouncementgeneral1w ago
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different
New Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude. Claude Mythos Preview has helped our researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms—the mathematical methods that are
New Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude. Claude Mythos Preview has helped our researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms—the mathematical methods that are used to keep data private. Read more: https://t.co/TYKLjb3Q7V
Introducing Claude Opus 5. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. https://t.co/GQWhcq2CQL
Introducing Claude Opus 5 Product Jul 24, 2026 Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
X/Twitter@claudeaiAnthropicannouncementgeneral2w ago
Voice mode now runs on Claude's more capable models and reaches the tools you've connected mid-conversation. Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages. https://t.co/k0CWAGjLdK
LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly undertake long-horizon tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool use, and revision across many interdependent steps. However, existing agent harnesses maintain task execution, task state, and completion assessment within a growing context, making the state difficult to track and allowing incorrect self-assessments to propagate into later decisions. We reformulate long-horizon execution as a task-state management problem and propose LongHorizon-Harness, which maintains the task state explicitly outside execution and updates it only with facts independently verified from the environment. Its Manage-Execute-Audit(MEA) loop uses a manager to maintain the task state and determine the next subtask, a fresh-context executor to perform it, and a read-only auditor to verify the resulting environment state before the next round. A lightweight AgentAdapter supports interchangeable model and harness backends without modifying their native agent loops. LongHorizon-Harness improves Qwen~3.7-Plus from 51.8% to 80.7% on WeaveBench, from 69.7% to 77.2% on Terminal-Bench~2.1, and from 2.8% to 8.3% on OSWorld~2.0. It also raises Claude Opus~4.7 from 20.0% to 34.3% on an OSWorld2.0 subset, demonstrating consistent gains across models, harnesses, and interaction domains.
Post-training alignment is often shallow, eroding under fine-tuning. Whether midtraining interventions, cleanly isolated from post-training, can produce durable alignment remains untested. We test this via constitutional midtraining: inserting principled, values-based content into midtraining against a replay-only control at 120B scale. Our 394M-token constitutional corpus, built from Anthropic's Constitution, uses a 2x2 factorial design (curriculum ordering x deliberative reasoning) to produce four constitutionally midtrained conditions plus a control, evaluated on self-generated and established benchmarks including alignment under pressure, value conflict resolution, blackmail, and emergent misalignment across three stages: post-midtraining, post-SFT, and post-benign fine-tuning. Constitutionally midtrained models outperform the control on alignment generalization and durability, notably on blackmail: SFT instills a blackmail propensity in all models, but constitutional midtraining blunts it, with the advantage surviving benign fine-tuning (-17.5pp). This durability does not extend to settings requiring active resistance to in-context pressure or conflict, where the advantage attenuates after SFT. The presence of constitutional content at midtraining also matters more than its structure, and constitutional midtraining incurs no cost, on average, on the capabilities we test (MMLU, ARC-Easy, piqa, GSM8K) at any stage. A modest amount of constitutional content at midtraining could therefore yield broad, persistent alignment gains, offering a cheap, complementary addition to SFT-centered pipelines. Code, data, and models are available.
On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA , Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Performance and cost-effectiveness Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The charts in this section show how performance changes according to the model’s effort setting, which customers can use to optimize for intelligence or conserve tokens for f