Claude Opus 4 preceded Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.6 in Anthropic’s flagship line (announcement). It appears in this corpus as the reference point in the When AI builds itself report: where Opus 4 managed 3x on the standing training-code speedup test, Mythos Preview reached ~52x, the comparison the newsletter uses to show how quickly the loop’s inner task is being automated.
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Claude Opus 4
An earlier generation of Anthropic's Opus line, cited in the corpus as the baseline that managed 3x on the lab's standing training-code speedup test.
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