# Claude Opus 4.8

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## Timeline

- **2026-07-08**: SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5 — First publicly available model since the SpaceX‑xAI merger; targets coders and knowledge workers with aggressive pricing.
- **2026-07-08**: OpenAI launches GPT‑5.6 Sol — Hours after Grok 4.5’s announcement, OpenAI debuts its new top‑tier model at $5/$30 per million tokens, heightening same‑day competition.
- **2026-07-01**: Claude Fable 5 restored globally; Mythos 5 partially restored — After 19 days, Anthropic deploys a new safety classifier and the industry jailbreak framework, winning approval. Claude Fable 5 returns worldwide, while Mythos 5 is made available only to select organizations.
- **2026-06-12**: Amazon reports jailbreak; Commerce issues directive — Amazon engineers report a jailbreak technique on Claude Fable 5 to the U.S. Commerce Department, which orders Anthropic to block foreign national access. Anthropic globally shuts down Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

## Recent coverage (6 stories)

### Gemini 3.6 Flash Cuts Token Costs by 17% but Pro Model Still Missing
2026-07-21 19:10:22 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

Google DeepMind ships three new Gemini Flash models focusing on efficiency, cost reduction, and cybersecurity specialization, while the long-awaited 3.5 Pro remains delayed amid fierce frontier model competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/google-gemini-3-6-flash-pro-delay

### Grok 4.5 pricing at $2/$6 tokens undercuts Claude, challenges GPT-5.6
2026-07-09 05:18:39 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 model for coding and agentic tasks competes directly with Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's upcoming GPT-5.6 Luna, offering aggressively lower pricing at $2 per million input tokens.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/grok-45-pricing-ai-coding-launch

### Grok 4.5 Scores 64.7% on SWE Bench Pro, Undercuts Rivals at $2/1M Tokens
2026-07-09 00:03:55 · Sentiment: Bullish · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding-focused model priced at just $2/1M input tokens, significantly cheaper than rivals. Musk himself concedes it is “roughly comparable to Opus 4.7”—one generation behind Anthropic’s latest flagship—but emphasizes speed and utility for internal engineers.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/grok-4-5-64-percent-swe-bench-pro

### All Major AI Models Can Do It: Anthropic’s 19-Day Ban Reveals Jailbreak Parity Across GPT-5.5, Kimi, and Claude
2026-07-04 02:17:38 · Sentiment: Bullish · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 3

Anthropic's testing showed that the jailbreak technique flagged by Amazon works across OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, China’s Kimi K2.7, and its own older models, raising questions about whether such capability is unique or universal — and how a new classifier aims to block it.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/ai-models-jailbreak-parity-anthropic-classifier

### 80% of OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Answers Leaned Left in Political Bias Test
2026-06-28 08:40:35 · Sentiment: Bearish · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 10

A Washington Post investigation exposes significant left-wing political bias in leading AI models, with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 showing an 80% left-leaning response rate. Google's Gemini demonstrates over 90% balanced answers, highlighting feasible neutrality in AI systems. This raises urgent questions for AI developers regarding training data, value alignment, and user trust.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/gpt-55-80-percent-left-bias-political-test

### Claude Fable 5 cuts off 4 key domains to halt Chinese AI distillation
2026-06-12 20:54:03 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 3

Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Fable 5, automatically downgrades queries on frontier AI development and distillation, dealing a major blow to Chinese AI labs that relied on the technique. The move could accelerate China’s push for indigenous foundational models.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/claude-fable-5-distillation-restrictions-ai

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