Claude Opus 5 launched
Tech · Releases · Fri, July 24, 2026
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.
Every year
| Date | Event | When |
|---|---|---|
| Tue, Jun 30, 2026 | Claude Sonnet 5 launched | 3 mo ago |
| Wed, Jul 1, 2026 | Model entitlements for Enterprise plans (beta) | 3 mo ago |
| Thu, Jul 9, 2026 | Monthly recap in Settings > Reflect (beta), plus break reminders and quiet hours | 3 mo ago |
| Fri, Jul 24, 2026 | Claude Opus 5 launched | 2 mo ago |
| Thu, Aug 6, 2026 | Skill and plugin security scanning (beta) for Enterprise plans | 2 mo ago |
| Tue, Sep 1, 2026 | Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 launched | 24 days ago |
| Thu, Sep 10, 2026 | Smart reports (beta) on Claude Enterprise analyze team usage and costs | 15 days ago |
| Tue, Sep 15, 2026 | Salesforce in Claude plugin (beta) with 37 pre-built sales skills | 10 days ago |
| Tue, Sep 22, 2026 | Claude Opus 5.5 launched, first model in the Claude 5.5 family | 3 days ago |
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- 2026-09-25: added to 2026-07-24