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Claude Opus 5 ships as Anthropic resets the benchmark line
Jul 25, 2026SOURCE: aitoolsrecap.com
SO WHAT
The window narrows: each stronger model shifts intelligence from scarce human labor toward concentrated machine capacity.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, with $5/$25 per million tokens, frontier-bench SOTA at 43.3%, and ARC-AGI-3 at 30.2%. It becomes the new default on Claude Max, another signal that the old system is being rewritten by the models themselves.
launched and set as default on Claude Max
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