Anthropic says Opus 5 is the company's "most aligned model to date"; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (Madison Mills/Axios)

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, its fourth model in under two months. The company states that Opus 5 is its "most aligned model to date," and "the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse." This new AI model is designed to offer performance comparable to Anthropic's most powerful existing model.