Claude Sonnet 5: Near-Opus Performance, Sonnet Pricing
Claude Sonnet 5 launches today at well under half of Opus 4.8's price. Benchmarks, context window, and safety findings from the official system card.
Claude Sonnet 5 launches today at well under half of Opus 4.8's price. Benchmarks, context window, and safety findings from the official system card.
Anthropic's most powerful public model matches or beats Opus across the board โ then quietly hands its riskiest queries back to Opus to keep them safe.
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1, taking the first formal step toward an IPO โ and beating OpenAI to it. What a confidential filing does and doesn't mean, and the question it leaves open: what happens to a safety-first public benefit corporation when public shareholders arrive.
Anthropic closed its Series H at $65 billion, valuing the company at $965 billion โ past OpenAI's $852 billion mark and within reach of a trillion. The round that was still being weighed a month ago came in bigger than reported.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 today โ better coding, parallel subagents, a cheaper fast mode, and a model trained to flag its own uncertainty. Mythos is finally weeks out.
Anthropic launched the Claude Compliance API on May 21 with 28 partner integrations spanning CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Zscaler, Microsoft Purview, Wiz, and IBM Guardium. It does the unglamorous job of routing Claude traffic into the same dashboards your security team already runs for everything else.
Anthropic took 300 megawatts and 220,000 GPUs at SpaceX's Memphis data center on the same day Musk testified against Sam Altman. Compute, not ideology, is now setting deal terms at the top of the AI stack.
Anthropic is weighing offers for a fresh round at a $900 billion valuation โ more than double February's mark and ahead of OpenAI's most recent post-money. The trajectory is real, the differentiator has a name, and the bill is for compute.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 today โ better coding, sharper vision, a model that checks its own work. Its best model still isn't shipping.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview is so powerful the company won't release it publicly. Instead, it's giving a coalition of tech giants early access to hunt vulnerabilities before attackers can.