Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 after reaching a $350 billion valuation

Anthropic pushed ahead on Monday with the launch of Claude Opus 4.5, its newest model built to handle coding, computer use, and complex company tasks. The rollout came fast, landing only weeks after the company released Claude Sonnet 4.5 in September and Claude Haiku 4.5 in October. The timing showed how the company is moving at full speed while the rest of the AI field tries to keep up. The company, created in 2021 by former OpenAI staff, reached a valuation of roughly $350 billion last week after fresh multi‑billion‑dollar funding from Microsoft and Nvidia. The new money landed the same week the company prepared Opus 4.5, the upgraded version of the Claude Opus 4.1 model released in August. Product chief Scott White said, “The amount that we’re releasing to the market and the feedback loops that we’re generating from it just make me so unbelievably excited,” during an interview...

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