Opus 4.8 Builds a Historical Rebirth Simulator for 117 Billion Humans
Ethan Mollick used Claude Opus 4.8 to generate The Veil of History, a website that weights a random human life by 117 billion historical births and, according to the article, uses 4,000 Monte Carlo runs to estimate regional and era distributions.
Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Mollick’s Claude Opus 4.8 demo has a strange hook, concrete numbers, and a builder-relevant prototyping angle. It is not an Anthropic release, so it stays in the lower featured band.