Claude Opus 5 might be landing sooner than you think. Anthropic could release the next-generation model as early as tonight or tomorrow morning, and it's already being staged on third-party provider infrastructure.
This isn't just rumor. An unreleased model codenamed "Honeycomb EAP" briefly appeared in Cursor, the AI code editor, with support for "extra high" reasoning strength, per-turn control, and safety rollback — then vanished just as fast. The community immediately pegged Honeycomb as Opus 5, but Anthropic hasn't confirmed anything.
If the speculation holds, Opus 5 is expected to focus on coding, agentic workflows, tool calling, and multi-step reasoning — capabilities that could approach Fable…