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Claude Opus 4.8 Released

·2026.05.29 01:52

Key point

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with enhanced judgment and autonomy, along with new features.

Details

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, which offers improved judgment, honesty, and autonomous task capabilities. Pricing remains the same as before.

Key updates include the following:

  • Fast mode (research preview): Provides the Opus 4.8 model at approximately 2.5x faster speed, at 3x lower cost than before.
  • Enhanced Claude Code capabilities: Supports handoff functionality that lets you delegate feature implementation, migrations, and bug hunting tasks to Claude.
  • Dynamic workflows (research preview): Runs hundreds of parallel subagents in Claude Code to perform tasks and verify results on its own.
  • Effort control: Lets users directly adjust the amount of thinking put into responses on claude.ai.

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on claude.ai, Claude Platform, and major cloud platforms.

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