Anthropic\u2019s \u201csmartest model\u201d is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus 4.6.<\/p>\n
It called the new model a \u201cdirect upgrade\u201d from its predecessor in a release, noting that it can better take on complex, multi-step tasks and get \u201cmuch closer to production-ready quality on the first try than what we\u2019ve seen with any model \u2014 documents, spreadsheets, and presentations will need less back-and-forth on iterations.\u201d It\u2019s available starting today with the same pricing as its predecessor, and according to the company, its particular strengths are in agentic coding, tool use, search, and financial analysis.<\/p>\n
But most of all, it seems that with this release, Anthropic wants to expand Claude\u2019s current hype beyond just coding and corner the market on other types of knowledge work. With Opus 4.6, it invested in making the model better at creating presentations in PowerPoint and documents in Excel. The blog post included a plug for Cowork, Anthropic\u2019s recent release that\u2019s a non-tech-worker-friendly version of Claude Code, in hopes that users in non-technical industries will explore the use cases for research, marketing, and more.<\/p>\n
On the coding front, Anthropic said in a release that Opus 4.6 was built to improve developers\u2019 experience with Claude Code even further, since it specializes in long-horizon tasks and can \u201ctake a development project that would normally take days and finish it in hours, handling everything from architecture to deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company also announced a feature currently in research preview called \u201cagent teams,\u201d allowing the new model to work within Claude Code \u201cthe way a real engineering team does,\u201d meaning it\u2019s possible to split one project\u2019s work across agents that each own a part of the project and coordinate with each other.<\/p>\n
Dianne Na Penn, Anthropic\u2019s head of research product management, told The Verge that the company focused on bettering the \u201cmulti-agent\u201d experience for developers with this launch, investing in output quality and speed, as well as getting the model to be better at other types of knowledge work besides just coding \u2014 i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, and search functions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first version of an Opus model where we have a one-million context window offered in beta,\u201d Penn said. \u201cWe just had such positive feedback about Opus 4.5 that one of the key features people wanted was a longer context window so they could work with Claude across more documents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthropic said in the blog post that it ran the \u201cmost comprehensive\u201d set of safety tests for Opus 4.6 of any of its models to date. New evaluations included ones for user well-being, more complex tests on whether Opus 4.6 could refuse \u201cpotentially dangerous requests,\u201d and updated tests for how well the model could secretly perform harmful actions. The model also displays heightened cybersecurity abilities, per the company, so it included six new cybersecurity probes to track potential misuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s \u201csmartest model\u201d is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[554,1119,84,59,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-410514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}