Anthropic's Opus 5 focuses on token efficiency, not capability leap

Anthropic rolled out Opus 5, which performs at about the same level or slightly ahead of Fable on coding benchmarks like Frontier-Bench and DeepSWE, at approximately half the cost. It lags behind Fable and Mythos on cybersecurity vulnerability exploitation due to training decisions.
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