This Saturday morning, Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, its newest and fastest AI model, just 41 days after its predecessor. Both Let's Data Science and Memeburn confirm this rapid upgrade brings a new "Fast mode" offering up to 2.5 times higher output tokens per second and is three times cheaper than previous Opus versions.

Let's Data Science highlights Opus 4.8's design for coding and complex knowledge tasks, available through the Claude API and partners like Amazon Bedrock and Microso