Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up

Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4. 8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model's "honesty. " According to Anthropic, it trains "all [its] models to be honest - for instance, to avoid making claims that they can't support.

" But it notes that "a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, confidently presenting their work as making progress despite thin evidence. " The AI lab claims that early testers have found that Opus 4.