28th May 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement:
Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There’s still more to be done: we’re working on developing and releasing models that provide many of the same capabilities as Opus at a lower cost.
It’s so refreshing to see an AI lab honestly describe a release as a minor incremental improvement over the previous model!
Honesty seems to be a theme. Here’s my other favorite note from that announcement:
