Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.
Available today at the same price.
In Claude Code, Opus 4.8 makes calls like an experienced engineer without needing constant check-ins.
It stays on track across long-running sessions and follows work through in your repo.
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas."
Read the full text of his remarks: https://t.co/CoBfkVOVcy
Fast mode now defaults to Opus 4.7 in Claude Code.
Fast mode is identical Opus quality at ~2.5× the response speed, billed at a higher per-token rate. Use it when latency matters more than cost: rapid iteration, live debugging, time-sensitive work.
What are best practices for running Claude Code at scale?
New blog post on what we've learned from teams running it across multi-million-line monorepos, decades-old legacy systems, and distributed microservices:
https://t.co/rJUYlIUiTT
Fast mode now defaults to Opus 4.7 in Claude Code.
Try it out today with /fast
Fast mode is identical Opus quality at ~2.5× the response speed, billed at a higher per-token rate.
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Most people waste Claude credits without realizing it. Here are 16 rules to get better outputs while using fewer credits. Save this. 🧵
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Useful tip to cut time-to-first-token on longer prompts in the API: pre-warm the prompt cache.
Send your system prompt before the user prompt. Claude writes it to the cache, but skips generating any output.
When the real user request lands, it'll hit a warm cache.
We’re partnering with the Gates Foundation, committing $200 million in grants, Claude credits, and technical support to programs in global health, life sciences, education, agriculture, and economic mobility.
Read more: https://t.co/eqCrLKtNCq
- Live now, runs through July 13 at 6PM PDT / 1AM GMT
- Nothing to opt into, it’s already applied to your account
- This stacks with the 2x increase to 5-hour limits announced last week.
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Claude Code weekly limits are increasing 50%, now through July 13.
Live now for all Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise users.
Details:
- Applies everywhere you use Claude Code — CLI, IDE extensions, desktop, and the web
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