Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Ars Technica reports that Anthropic has released Opus 5, its latest language model. The update prioritizes token efficiency—accomplishing tasks with fewer tokens to reduce costs for developers. While Opus is popular for coding and software development, this release is a practical efficiency gain rather than the capability leap that Opus 4.5 represented.

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