Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5: Near Fable 5 Capabilities, Opus-Level Pricing
On July 24, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, keeping its pricing at $5/$25 per million tokens. The company stated that its coding and knowledge work intelligence is close to that of GPT-4o (Fable 5). It scores 96.0% on SWE-bench Verified and 79.2% on SWE-bench Pro, supports 1 million-token context window and effort adjustment, and has been launched on Claude API, Claude Code and AWS Bedrock. Developers are heatedly discussing the cost-performance ratio of Agent coding.
Read MoreOpenAI Integrates GPT-Live Full-Duplex Voice Access into Codex, Paving the Way for Hands-Free Operation of Coding Agents
On July 23, 2026, OpenAI integrated GPT-Live full-duplex voice access into Codex and ChatGPT Work in ChatGPT desktop build 26.715. Developers can use natural voice to initiate parallel coding tasks across threads between Chat, Work and Codex, review PRs, and remotely guide Agents. macOS also supports Appshots screen context. Based on OpenAI's official Changelog and Voice documentation, this article sorts out the GPT-Live architecture, typical scenarios, enabling steps, quota and permission boundaries, to help readers understand the interactive upgrade of Agentic Coding from typing commands to hands-free orchestration.
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