Anthropic on Friday launched Opus 5, its latest AI model that the startup says nears the capabilities of its more powerful cousin Fable 5 at half the price.

After the government’s cybersecurity concerns, the company gave this model more cyber safeguards than the previous Opus model.

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new AI model designed for coding, enterprise workflows and agentic tasks that delivers near-frontier performance at half the cost of Claude…

The San Francisco-based lab said the new Claude AI model was well suited for daily office and computer programming tasks.

Most of the intelligence of Fable, at half the price.