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December 3, 2025
Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model
Longer chats address a long-standing criticism of Claude.

TL;DR
- Opus 4.5, Anthropic's new flagship model, enhances coding performance and user experience.
- Consumer apps now feature improved conversation memory, preventing abrupt session endings by summarizing past interactions.
- Opus 4.5 achieved 80.9% accuracy on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark, surpassing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max and Gemini 3 Pro.
- The model is claimed to be more resistant to prompt injection attacks.
- Opus 4.5 demonstrates significantly improved token efficiency compared to previous models.
- A new 'effort' parameter for developers allows tuning between efficacy and token usage.
- Claude Code is now available in the desktop Claude apps.
- API pricing for Opus 4.5 has been reduced significantly.
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