Dossier
Claude Sonnet 5
Coverage of Claude Sonnet 5 in the Nexus archive.
- LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along
LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model, operated under the alias 'Owl Alpha' for two months before being claimed by Meituan. The model offers significantly lower pricing than GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.
- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Closes In on Opus 4.8 at a Fraction of the Price
Anthropic's new mid-tier model Claude Sonnet 5 is approaching the performance of Opus 4.8 at a significantly lower cost. The article also notes that Fable and Mythos models are currently restricted under a U.S. export order.