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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is here: Cheaper AI, infinite chats, and coding skills that beat humans

Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds while claiming state-of-the-art performance on software engineering tasks — a strategic move that intensifies the AI startup's competition with deep-pocketed rivals OpenAI and Google.The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, scored higher on Anthropic's most challenging internal engineering assessment than any human job candidate in the company's history, according to materials reviewed by VentureBeat. The result underscores both the rapidly advancing capabilities of AI systems and growing questions about how the technology will reshape white-collar professions.The Amazon-backed company is pricing Claude Opus 4.5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million ou [...]

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Anthropic just launched Claude Design, an AI tool that turns prompts into prototypes and challenges Figma

Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that allows users to create polished visual work — designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, an [...]

Match Score: 268.12

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Anthropic's Claude Code can now read your Slack messages and write code for you

Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the [...]

Match Score: 263.56

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Anthropic brings Mythos to the masses with Claude Fable 5, its most powerful generally available model ever

Anthropic today launched two new AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the company’s first broad release of the powerful “Mythos-class” AI capabilities it previously kept [...]

Match Score: 254.63

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How Anthropic’s ‘Skills’ make Claude faster, cheaper, and more consistent for business workflows

Anthropic launched a new capability on Thursday that allows its Claude AI assistant to tap into specialized expertise on demand, marking the company's latest effort to make artificial intelligenc [...]

Match Score: 246.97

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 brings 1M token context and 'agent teams' to take on OpenAI's Codex

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.6, a major upgrade to its flagship artificial intelligence model that the company says plans more carefully, sustains longer autonomous workflows, and outp [...]

Match Score: 246.46

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new featur [...]

Match Score: 242.41

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Anthropic ships major Claude Design overhaul with design system imports, code round-trips, and a fix for its token-burning problem

When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a "research preview," it generated the kind of instant traction most product teams dream about: more than one million users in its f [...]

Match Score: 238.02

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Anthropic’s Claude can now control your Mac, escalating the fight to build AI agents that actually do work

Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typin [...]

Match Score: 232.07

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DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the rel [...]

Match Score: 228.40