Opus 4.8 Beats 4.7 in Enterprise Report, Legal, Finance
Opus 4.8 is out, and we've been testing it with the Box AI agent on our most complex real-world knowledge worker tasks with enterprise documents. Opus 4.8 is measurably better at the generative and analytical work enterprises care about most like writing reports, synthesizing data, reviewing complex enterprise documents across a range of industries. Here are some quick examples of wins vs. Opus 4.7: * Report drafting: Opus 4.8 outperforms on a majority of report drafting tasks, producing more complete and accurate analytical reports. On an industrial goods reporting task, it scored 87% vs 77% for Opus 4.7; on a consumer products launch evaluation, 90% vs 84%. * Review and verification: On a legal NDA review task requiring verification of contract terms against compliance criteria, Opus 4.8 catches more relevant clauses and flags more potential issues, with near-perfect consistency across all trials. * Financial data analysis: On a corporate lending analysis task comparing syndicated vs bilateral loan structures, Opus 4.8 extracts more accurate financial metrics from source documents, leading by nearly 8 percentage points. * Consumer products launch evaluation: On a task requiring assessment of a product launch across multiple performance dimensions, Opus 4.8 captured evaluation criteria that Opus 4.7 missed — producing a more thorough aBnalysis that covered all required factors rather than just the most obvious ones. * Legal NDA review: On a task verifying NDA terms against compliance criteria, Opus 4.8 identified more relevant clauses and flagged potential issues that Opus 4.7 missed. Its outputs were also highly predictable — producing nearly identical quality across independent runs. * Public sector grant analysis: When analyzing library grant documentation against eligibility criteria, Opus 4.8 correctly extracted and validated nearly all required data points, catching specific eligibility details that Opus 4.7 overlooked or misinterpreted. Opus 4.8 will be rolling out shortly to Box customers to deploy in Box AI agents. Learn more here: https://t.co/D3vID1tWWv
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