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Opus 5 chatter points to Thursday — but the market is a coin flip, not 68%
The Opus 5 rumor mill is loud today: a Thursday target, a 1M-token context, capability close to Fable 5 at roughly half the price, and framing as Anthropic's answer to GPT-5.6 and Kimi K3. Anthropic has said nothing. Treat all of that as unconfirmed — it is graded rumor here for a reason.
What we CAN verify is the market, so we pulled it live rather than repeating the numbers going around:
The rest of this analysis — 4 more paragraphs — plus the source, is on the paid plans.
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