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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, positioning it as a lower-cost alternative to its premium Fable 5 model. The new model achieves top scores in agentic coding and knowledge work benchmarks while charging half the token price of Fable 5. Opus 5 also posted a surprising 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 test, nearly four times higher than GPT-5.6 Sol.
Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode to run on its most powerful models, Opus and Sonnet, across mobile, desktop, and web platforms. Users can now switch between models mid-conversation, use voice commands in eleven languages, and connect to external tools like Gmail, Google Calendar, or Slack to compose and send emails by voice. The update positions Claude as a unique option for tool integration in voice AI, though competitors like OpenAI and Google offer more natural speech processing.
Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode to let users choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models. The new voice mode can tap into apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion. It is available in beta to all users, with free users limited to Haiku and one connected app.
OpenAI's GPT-4 held the top spot on the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, far longer than any model since. Jaeho Lee, a researcher at Epoch AI, notes that the second-longest lead, held by OpenAI's o1, lasted just over three months. Since Claude 3 Opus dethroned GPT-4 in February 2024, the top model has changed hands 17 times, with a median stay of only seven weeks.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful widely available AI model and the first from the previously withheld Mythos class. The company claims new safeguards make the release safe by blocking responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology, falling back to the Claude Opus 4.8 model. Pricing is double that of Opus 4.8, at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.
Deepseek has made its 75 percent discount on the flagship Deepseek V4 Pro model permanent, slashing output token prices to $0.87 per million versus $30 for GPT-5.5. The move intensifies the price war between Chinese and Western AI labs, with Deepseek offering output tokens at roughly 34.5 times less than OpenAI's top model. The permanent pricing, originally set to expire May 31, 2026, also undercuts Anthropic's Opus 4.7 by a similar margin on output tokens.
Anthropic has launched ten agent templates for key financial tasks like pitchbooks, KYC screening, and month-end closes. These work as plugins in Claude Cowork and Claude Code or cookbooks for Claude Managed Agents. Integration with Microsoft apps and new data connectors enhance capabilities, paired with Claude Opus 4.7 topping benchmarks.
Xiaomi launched MiMo-V2.5-Pro, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 1.02 trillion parameters. It completed a full compiler project in 4.3 hours during internal tests and performs close to Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks. The model uses 40 to 60 percent fewer tokens than competitors like Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Open Design provides an open-source option to Anthropic's Claude Design, released on 2026-04-17 with Opus 4.7. It uses 12 coding-agent CLIs like Claude Code, Codex, and Devin for Terminal, detected on PATH, along with 31 skills and 72 design systems. Local-first and web-deployable, it supports BYOK at every layer and runs with pnpm tools-dev.
An analysis by the ARC Prize Foundation of 160 game runs on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark reveals three systematic reasoning errors in OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Opus 4.7. Both models score below 1 percent, with GPT-5.5 at 0.43 percent and Opus 4.7 at 0.18 percent. The errors include missing the big picture from local details, confusing new environments with training games, and failing to verify successful strategies.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 60 points, surpassing Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. Its API pricing shows a net 20 percent increase over GPT-5.4 due to doubled rates offset by 40 percent fewer tokens. The model achieves top accuracy on fact benchmarks yet hallucinates at an 86 percent rate.
GitHub has paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans while tightening usage limits and removing Opus models from Pro plans. These steps aim to maintain service reliability amid rising demands from agentic workflows. Existing users see usage displays in VS Code and Copilot CLI, with options to upgrade to Pro+ for over 5X higher limits or request refunds through May 20.