Claude Opus 4.8: an AI model for coding and AI agents
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an update to Opus 4.7 with improvements in coding, agentic tasks and long-running work. The new model beats GPT-5.5 on most benchmarks, scores 84% on Online-Mind2Web and is considered the best option for browser agents. Fast mode is now 3 times cheaper. Claude Code gains a Dynamic Workflows feature for complex projects.
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Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.8, an AI model for coding and AI agents with improved judgment for task automation.
How do you use Claude Opus 4.8 for coding?
Claude Opus 4.8 is integrated into Claude Code with new Dynamic Workflows for large tasks and Fast Mode, which runs 2.5× faster and costs 3 times less than the standard mode.
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