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Releases from frontier labs, major companies and research institutes — grouped by model, deduplicated across HuggingFace, OpenRouter and official blogs.

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Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's flagship model with significantly improved price–performance ratio: it communicates more directly than its predecessor, matches Fable 5.1's intelligence at lower cost, and achieves higher token efficiency, making it suitable for extended reasoning and agentic workflows.

1 variantBatch

Week of August 31, 20261 model

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work: long code refactors, front-end and visual...

1 variantBatch

Week of July 20, 20261 model

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Claude Opus 5.5 improves communication clarity over previous Opus models and achieves token efficiency approaching Fable 5.1 at lower cost. Output is capped at 128K tokens, making extended chain-of-thought unreliable.

1 variantBatch

Week of June 29, 20261 model

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...

1 variantBatch

Week of June 8, 20261 model

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's new top flagship — replaces the Opus tier as the strongest generally available model. Arena Elo 1508 (rank 1). 1M context, Adaptive Thinking always on, $10/$50 per MTok. Fable 5 + Mythos 5 (invite-only) launched together on June 9, 2026.

Week of May 25, 20261 model

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Current Opus-tier model (until Claude Fable 5). Arena Elo ~1490. 1M context, Adaptive Thinking, knowledge through Jan 2026. $5/$25 per MTok direct, similar on OpenRouter.

Week of January 26, 20261 model

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

A few generations before Fable 5 — but in thinking mode Arena Elo 1502, rank 3 worldwide. Still relevant for setups where Extended Thinking is desired and Fable 5's Adaptive Thinking isn't enough.