TAI #207: Claude Opus 4.8 Is Better, but Dynamic Workflows Are the Bigger Story

Also, Anthropic files for an IPO after raising $65B, Liquid AI LFM2.5-8B-A1B, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and more. What happened this week in AI by Louie Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, six weeks after Opus 4.7. It landed alongside two unusually large company announcements: Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B post-money valuation and confidentially submitted a draft S-1 for an initial public offering. OpenAI brought its frontier models and Codex to AWS, while NVIDIA and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark PCs designed to run personal AI agents locally.