Anthropic debuts new model with hopes to corner the market beyond coding

February 5, 2026

TL;DR

Claude Opus 4.6 is a direct upgrade from its predecessor, Anthropic's "smartest model".
The new model excels at complex, multi-step tasks and aims for "production-ready quality" with less iteration.
Key strengths include agentic coding, tool use, search, and financial analysis.
Anthropic is expanding Claude's capabilities into non-coding knowledge work, such as creating documents and presentations.
Opus 4.6 improves Claude Code for developers, specializing in long-horizon tasks and offering "agent teams" for collaborative project work.
A one-million context window is available in beta, a feature requested based on positive feedback for Opus 4.5.
Anthropic conducted its most comprehensive safety tests to date for Opus 4.6, including evaluations for user well-being and refusal of dangerous requests.
The model also features heightened cybersecurity abilities and new probes to track potential misuse.

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