Ep 122: Claude Opus 5 ships at the same price as its predecessor but doubles agentic coding scores, shifting the build decision from “which lab leads” to “which model delivers frontier results per token.”

Models & Agents — Video Edition · Jul 25, 2026 · 11m

Models & Agents Claude Opus 5 ships at the same price as its predecessor but doubles agentic coding scores, shifting the build decision from “which lab leads” to “which model delivers frontier results per token.” What You Need to Know: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 yesterday with unchanged pricing of $5/$25 per million tokens while claiming large gains on Frontier-Bench, ARC-AGI 3, and OSWorld 2.0. The model emphasizes token efficiency and self-verification, with an adjustable effort setting and automatic fallback routing for safety classifiers. Builders should test it on bounded coding…