Anthropic
claude-3-opus-latest
☠ Dead
Yes. claude-3-opus-latest was shut down on January 5, 2026. Requests to it fail.
This is an alias of claude-3-opus-20240229, so it follows the same date.
Recommended replacement: claude-opus-4-8
Source: Anthropic deprecation page, announced June 30, 2025.
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