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.
Mark Cuban just handed young people a blueprint for getting rich in the next 1-5 years.
Every small and mid-sized business will soon need AI agents.
Except none of those business owners will know how to build them.
That's your opportunity.
His advice: learn Claude, learn agentic workflows, learn AI. Then walk into those businesses and solve problems they can't solve themselves. They have money. They have deep problems. You have the skills.
Artificial intelligence is not a single technology but a layered system where each level builds on the previous one. It starts with AI as the broad concept, moves into machine learning that learns from data, neural networks inspired by the human brain, and deep learning that powers vision, speech, and language.
On top of that comes generative AI, capable of creating text, images, and media, and finally agentic AI, which can reason, use tools, and act autonomously toward goals. Understanding these layers helps make sense of how modern AI systems work and where the future of intelligent technology is headed.