Antropic, a San Francisco-based AI company, had now made public knowledge that it would release a statement nowadays, Thursday, May 22nd, with a broadcast scheduled for 9:30 am PT.
According to some in the wider AI power user community, particularly those on X, the announcement marked the debut of a new Claude model codenamed” Neptune,” based on earlier searches of Anthropic documents and code online. This model, which some believed to be a new generation of its potent Claude large language model ( LLM) family, could also be the long-awaited” Claude 4 Opus, a larger-parameter ( denoting more internal settings and complexity ) model replacement to the current
According to the studies of eagle-eyed AI programmers and information bloggers on X, it now appears that Time Magazine has unintentionally confirmed that story, publishing and immediately removing an article from its site.
People also appears to have published a complete copy of the Time article on the news aggregators app Newsbreak, even though that is now gone offline.
Although Time’s article is focused on Claude 4 Opus ‘ health risks and mitigations, it does show that the new Claude may be able to assist novices in developing new bioweapons.
On commonly used third-party AI metrics, there are few details about the type size, price, licensing terms, and efficiency. For those, we’ll just have to delay until more details are revealed by Anthropic or leaked by AI and media personnel.