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Anthropic declined to comment, but referred Bloomberg News to a five-hour podcast featuring Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei that was released Monday.

"People call them scaling laws. That's a misnomer," he said on the podcast. "They're not laws of the universe. They're empirical regularities. I am going to bet in favor of them continuing, but I'm not certain of that."

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An Anthropic spokesperson said the language about Opus was removed from the website as part of a marketing decision to only show available and benchmarked models. Asked whether Opus 3.5 would still be coming out this year, the spokesperson pointed to Amodei’s podcast remarks. In the interview, the CEO said Anthropic still plans to release the model but repeatedly declined to commit to a timetable.

— OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI, Rachel Metz, Shirin Ghaffary, Dina Bass, and Julia Love for Bloomberg