Anthropic Introduces the New Opus 8 Model

This model currently seems to be the most intelligent, ideal for chat. For coding, ChatGPT 5.5 still seems better. One interesting point worth mentioning is that, according to the table in the article about the release of Opus 8 - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 - it is also listed as the best for finance, but there is a note below the article saying that there is actually Financial Agent v2 from Google Gemini, which is much better. Much better. I recommend reading the footnotes ;-)