Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max
THE SO WHAT
Making Opus 5 the default on Claude Max is Anthropic telling you the frontier tier is now for edge cases, not daily spend. If your org is still defaulting to top-shelf models for routine workflows, you're likely overpaying relative to what this tier now offers.
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