Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Just Changed the LLM Playing Field

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What if you could get near-frontier AI performance without paying frontier prices? That's essentially what Anthropic just dropped with Claude Opus 5, and it's the kind of move that forces the entire industry to recalibrate. Thursday's release marks a significant inflection point in the AI arms race. Claude Opus 5 delivers capabilities approaching Claude Fable 5—Anthropic's previous flagship—while undercutting it on both price and restrictions. This isn't just iterative improvement; it