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Claude Opus 5: Frontier Intelligence at Half Price Signals the Commodity Curve Has Begun
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 pairs near-Fable-5 capability with a 50% price cut, and Lenny Rachitsky's real-workflow verdict of "brilliant but annoying" suggests the frontier model market has crossed into the declining segment of the commoditization curve, where price and workflow fit now matter more than raw capability.