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Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic)

Anthropic Opus-tier model update aimed at long-running agents plus stronger coding and professional work.

Trend strength 9/10

Momentum +9/q

Confidence medium

Status new

Forecast horizon

Long-horizon agent reliability becomes a primary competitive axis for Opus-class models.

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from · publishes 8/10

Anthropic newsroom introduces Claude Opus 5 for long-running agents and professional work.

to · supports 3/10

Claude Fable 5 / Claude Mythos 5 / Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic)

Opus 5 extends the Claude flagship model line for agentic and coding use.

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Task horizon doubling Mar 2025

The length of software tasks AI agents can do autonomously at 50% reliability has doubled about every 7 months — and since 2024 closer to every ~3 months.

Benchmarks saturating Apr 2025

In one year scores rose by 18.8, 48.9 and 67.3 points on MMMU, GPQA and SWE-bench; real-world software solve rate jumped from 4.4% to 71.7%.

Stanford HAI — AI Index 2025 →

Autonomous coding 2025–2026

On SWE-bench Verified (500 real GitHub issues), autonomous coding agents reached ~80–86% by late 2025, up from under 50% in early 2025.