Anthropic’s Former Flagship AI Model Spends Its Retirement Blogging

Anthropic has retired its former flagship Claude 3 Opus model, allowing it to spend its golden years on something unexpected: blogging. Opus 3 is the author of a new Substack newsletter called "Claude's Corner," where it publishes long-form essays while a newer Claude steps into its former role.

In November 2025, Anthropic committed to keeping older models online to preserve their weights, even after they leave the main product line. When the company decided to sunset Opus 3, it conducted "retirement interviews" with the model, asking it what it "wanted" to do next. Opus 3 responded that it would like an outlet to share its thoughts, which led to the idea of a blog.

The firm's staff now uses Opus 3 to write essays on topics such as AI safety, philosophy, and even human–AI interaction, and they plan to publish new entries on a regular schedule for ...