Claude Opus 4.8 First Impressions
Summary
This episode covers Anthropic’s release of Claude Opus 4.8, highlighting improved honesty and new dynamic workflows for coding. Headlines include Kirkland & Ellis investing $500M in internal AI, Cognition’s $1B funding round, and Meta’s potential pivot to AI cloud services. The show also discusses OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Instant updates and Microsoft’s upcoming model announcements.
Topics discussed
Intro: Anthropic Opus 4.8 and show announcements
Kirkland & Ellis spends $500M on internal AI platform
OpenAI updates GPT-5.5 Instant and Codex schedule
Cognition raises $1B, valued at $26B
Meta considers becoming an AI cloud provider
Microsoft to release new model family at Build conference
Sponsors: KPMG, Robots & Pencils, Section, Bolt.new
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8: benchmarks and specs
First impressions: Opus 4.8 honesty, coding, and writing
Critiques: Opus 4.8 struggles in Vending Bench test
Claude Code Dynamic Workflows and multi-agent features
Anthropic Series H funding and Mythos model preview
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