Claude Opus 5 is out, and Artificial Analysis — who supported Anthropic's pre-release evaluation — just dropped their full benchmark breakdown. The headline: new top model for agentic knowledge work, and cheaper per task than Fable 5.
That combination doesn't come along often at the frontier.
"Opus 5 (max) scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, effectively tied with Claude Fable 5 (max, 60), and ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol (max, 59)"
What actually changed
New agentic leader: 1861 Elo on GDPval-AA v2 — more than 100 points ahead of both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. On AA-Briefcase (agentic knowledge work), it's +146 Elo over Fable 5.
