Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model with Enhanced Capabilities and Expanded Context Window

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.6, its most advanced AI model, featuring a 1 million token context window and enhanced coding, reasoning, and multitasking capabilities. Designed for complex professional tasks like financial analysis, software development, and document creation, Opus 4.6 outperforms previous versions and rivals OpenAI's GPT-5.2 on several benchmarks. The model introduces an 'agent teams' feature enabling multiple AI agents to collaborate autonomously. This release intensifies competition with OpenAI and Google amid concerns over AI's impact on traditional software markets.