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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5: What's Anthropic AI's new Ultracode mode, pricing, honesty claims and jailbreak debate

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.8, a new AI model. It offers better coding and reasoning abilities. Users can now control the model's effort for tasks. This feature is called Ultracode mode. Claude Opus 4.8 aims to be more reliable and transparent than previous versions. It competes directly with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model.