Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026.
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Anthropic on Thursday announced the launch of its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.6. This model is said to help you code better, stay on task longer, and produce higher quality professional work products and deliverables.
The Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s first major model launch of the year, and it comes just a few months after the company released three other models late last year: Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5.
Anthropic’s model is particularly popular with corporate customers, who make up about 80% of Anthropic’s business, CEO Dario Amodei told CNBC last month.
Advances in the company’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, and productivity tool, Claude Cowork, are also beginning to spook software investors, many of whom are increasingly concerned about potential disruption in the space.
of WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund It has fallen more than 20% since the beginning of the year.
“Over the last year and a half, we’ve all seen this transformation happen in software engineering, where vibe coding started to exist as a concept and allow people to do things with their ideas,” Scott White, head of enterprise products at Anthropic, told CNBC in an interview. “I think we’re almost moving into vibrational work now.”
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI researchers and executives and is best known for developing a family of AI models called Claude.
The company assigns new numbers to models with each generation, but typically the largest model in the family is called the Opus, the mid-sized model is called the Sonnet, and the smallest model is called the Haiku.
According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.6 builds on the coding skills of the previous version, offering better planning, code review, and debugging, and works reliably within large codebases. The model also excels at pulling relevant information from large document sets, conducting research, and performing financial analysis, the company said.
For example, Claude Opus 4.6 currently holds the top spot in the Finance Agent benchmark, which measures how well agents perform on core tasks for financial analysts.
According to Anthropic, the model is available through claude.ai’s chatbot interface, application programming interface, and all major cloud platforms.
“If you think back to the last year, Claude has gone from being a model that you can talk to to accomplish very small tasks or get answers to a model that you can actually delegate important tasks to,” White said. “Opus 4.6 is a model that makes that change really tangible for users.”
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