Claude launch videos of 2026: the films behind Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku

Claude launched its models on X in 2026 with eight short films, all posted by @claudeai. Anthropic's planned stock market listing has put the brand in the news this month.

They come in two speeds: five are fast collages of found pictures, from engravings and maps to Earth seen from orbit, and three are single animations that run in one or two takes. Most hold back the model's name until the last third, and five of the eight end on the picture they opened with.

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

Posted on November 9, the newest film runs 18.6 seconds in 11 scenes. It holds its opening, a blue horizon curving under a peach sky, for 2.7 seconds, then makes eight hard cuts of under two seconds each through close-ups built on a curve: a red sphere under green light, bubbles in amber glass, an aurora along Earth's edge seen from orbit. The last scene runs 5.1 seconds and ends back on the opening horizon.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Haiku 5.5's film, from October 7, is 11 seconds in two scenes with one transition at 4.2 seconds. It opens on a row of three notched swatches on an off-white ground, their pictures changing from yellow to pink, red and orange sets while a thin black arc sweeps in under them. The swatches clear, "Claude Haiku 5.5" sits on a slight curve above the arc, and in the last seconds the swatch row comes back.

Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5

The 5.5 family opened with two films six days apart, both starting on a curved horizon on a dark ground.

Sonnet 5.5, on September 28, runs 13.3 seconds in 10 scenes, every change a hard cut. It opens on Earth's curve through a dark spacecraft window, then cuts through eight shots of half a second to 1.4 seconds: gauges, a tempo scale, a hand drawing with charcoal, a flock of birds, a ring of blue flame, a dial. At 8.2 seconds it cuts back to the window, where "Sonnet 5.5" appears in white over the black sky before the Claude mark and wordmark replace it, and it ends on the window alone.

Opus 5.5, on September 22, packs 30 scenes into 20 seconds, all but one opened by a hard cut and the shortest 0.2 seconds. From 3.3 seconds it cuts about every half second through materials, bread crust, blue marble, a leaf, stitched leather, a horse drawing, each cropped so a curved edge sits across the middle of the frame. From 9.4 seconds a white serif line builds one phrase at a time in the same spot while the pictures keep changing: "There's", "more to", "discover". At 15.8 seconds "Opus 5.5" sits alone on a near-black card, then the Claude mark, and the last frame is the opening horizon again.

Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1

The September 1 film is the longest at 27.4 seconds, in 20 scenes, every change a hard cut. It opens on a filmed bird on a branch, then looks through a circular window on cream paper that moves across botanical plates labelled in italic script. From 7.3 seconds twelve cuts land in 3.6 seconds, then the circle frames a nebula, a chart of dots and the moon before the film opens out to a full sky. Its last scene runs 11.9 seconds: "Fable 5.1" in white serif over moving clouds, the Claude wordmark, and the bird landing back on the opening branch.

Fable 5 is back

The July 1 post is one 10-second take and a short end, 13.2 seconds in three scenes. A dotted marquee sign reads NOW SHOWING; an orange pixel creature climbs a ladder beneath it while pink letters spell FABLE 5 one tile at a time. At 10 seconds the panel lights up cream, the label turns amber and the creature walks out of frame, leaving the sign on its own.

Claude Sonnet 5

Sonnet 5's film, from June 30, is 11 seconds in two scenes and the only tall one, at 4:5. For 7.75 seconds, without a cut, illustrated leaves, stems and buds grow into a numeral 5 and flowers open along it, red, orange, white and yellow. A single transition then replaces the numeral with "Sonnet 5" in black on the same pale ground.

Claude Fable 5

The first film of the year, on June 9, makes 32 hard cuts in 20.5 seconds. It moves through a moth illustration, an antique French map, a botanical plate, a bird plate, a spectrum chart, beetle specimens, a petri dish and pressed flowers, and from 7.3 seconds a sepia engraving arranges deer and an ibex around a blank numeral 5. Butterflies close the run with cuts 0.08 seconds apart, and the film ends on the Claude wordmark in black serif on graph paper, without naming the model.

What Claude's launch films share

• Hold the name until the end. Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.1 and Sonnet 5 all name the model in the last third of the film, and Fable 5 closes on the wordmark alone.
• End where you began. Fable 5.1's bird lands back on its branch, and Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.2 and Haiku 5.5 all return to their opening picture.
• Keep one shape through every cut. Opus 5.5 crops each picture to a curve across the middle of the frame, and Fable 5.1 looks at everything through the same circle.
• Pick one speed. Opus 5.5 and Fable 5 average under a second a shot; Fable 5 is back and Sonnet 5 hold a single take for most of their length.