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Anthropic has upgraded Claude Opus to version 4.8, improving benchmark performance, honesty, and agentic reliability at the same price. New features include effort control for users, dynamic workflows in Claude Code for massive parallel tasks, and a 3× cheaper fast mode — with a more powerful Mythos-class model coming soon.
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