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Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Better At What’s It Good At, Worse At What It’s Not
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 performed well in math problems and game tasks but consumed excessive tokens in a single prompt during testing. The model showed mixed results across six tests, excelling in some areas while struggling with resource management.
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