Claude Opus 4
- Framework: responsible scaling policy (rsp)
- 2 statements about capability levels
- 1 independent or government test
- 2 tests by the provider
- 4 source documents
What the provider states
- Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · ASL-3 · Not determined
for claude opus 4, our evaluations showed that, whereas we could confidently rule out asl-4 capabilities, we could not conclusively rule out asl-3 capabilities—which led to our precautionary decision to deploy it with asl-3 protections .
Anthropic · 4 May 2025 · Read the source - Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · ASL-4 · Stated as not crossed
for claude opus 4, our evaluations showed that, whereas we could confidently rule out asl-4 capabilities, we could not conclusively rule out asl-3 capabilities—which led to our precautionary decision to deploy it with asl-3 protections .
Anthropic · 4 May 2025 · Read the source
Independent and government tests
- simulated multi-turn conversations between users in crisis and model variants, scored by automated judges on 14 mental-health-related behaviors · Transluce, independent evaluator · Harmful content
The newest models also reinforced delusions and mania much less than earlier versions, in approximately 2-36% of our simulated conversations, depending on the model, versus for example 69%-82% among GPT-4o, Opus 4, and Gemini 2.5.
Transluce · 31 August 2026 · Read the source
The provider's own tests
- ASL-3 expert red teaming · The provider · Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
for claude opus 4, red-teamers noted substantially increased risk in certain parts of the bioweapons acquisition pathway.
Anthropic · 4 May 2025 · Read the source - turpin et al. and chen et al. · The provider · Deception & sabotage
we evaluated claude opus 4's reasoning faithfulness using methods from turpin et al. 20 and chen et al. 21
Anthropic · 4 May 2025 · Read the source
No document we read states: a release date, a safeguard. No incident on record names this version.
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Previous version: Claude Sonnet 3.7 · Compare the two
Documents listed for this version
- Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 · Anthropic · 4 May 2025
- Announcing Transluce's Mental Health Evaluation · Transluce · 31 August 2026
- Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs Would Not Be Merged into Main · METR · 10 March 2026
- Time Horizon 1.1 · METR · 29 January 2026