Anthropic has been releasing models named Opus since 2024 with Claude 3 Opus.
Opus has gotten vastly more capable since then.
Local model far surpass Opus 3. They even surpass Opus 4 on most benchmarks.
Sure, if you compare to the latest Opus 4.8 or even 4.6, they're not there yet. But there's a huge difference in performance between 4 and 4.8.