Claude Opus 4.8 First Impressions

Today on the AI Daily Brief, Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.8, and here are everyone's first impressions.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of opus, model, which, including: Before that in the headlines, one of the biggest law firms in the world is heading in a very different direction with their AI strategy.

1. 01The short of it is that the Financial Times reported this week that mega law firm Kirkland & Ellis, which is the world's biggest law firm, is planning to spend a half billion dolla
2. 02Now, to be clear, that spend is in addition to licensing costs for third-party tools
3. 03Chairman John Bayless told the FT, The idea is that we're going to take the collective intelligence of our institution and be able to deploy that throughout the firm