Claude Opus 4.8: Anthropic's Most Capable Model Ships With a Feature That Matters More Than the Benchmarks
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. Benchmark scores are up across coding, computer-use, and agentic tasks. Pricing is unchanged. Three capabilities co-launching with the model deserve more attention than the numbers: Dynamic Workflows, a repriced fast mode, and mid-conversation system message…