SMRTR AIJun 1, 2026GitConnected

Claude Opus 4.8 Just Dropped — And It’s Quietly Rewriting What AI Can Actually Do

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 at the same price as its predecessor — $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens — while delivering measurable performance gains. The model scored 69.2% on agentic coding tasks, up from 64.3%, and 83.4% on computer-use benchmarks. Unlike typical upgrades that only improve on paper, Opus 4.8 appears to deliver real-world improvements that developers and builders will actually notice.

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