Amazon-backed (AMZN) AI firm Anthropic (PC:ANTPQ) just released its newest and most powerful AI model, Claude Opus 4.5. This launch follows the release of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. Interestingly, Opus 4.5 was tested against rivals like Google’s (GOOGL) Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s (PC:OPAIQ) GPT-5.1. On the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, it achieved 80.9% accuracy, making it the first model to reach that score. Therefore, the company calls it “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use.”
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It is worth noting that Google’s Gemini 3 has already received a lot of praise from investors and major tech leaders. For instance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff both spoke highly of it, with Benioff calling the jump from ChatGPT to Gemini 3 “insane.” However, according to Anthropic, people who tested Claude Opus 4.5 found it to be smarter and more independent. In fact, it can fix tough bugs without needing step-by-step instructions and can handle problems that earlier models like Sonnet 4.5 couldn’t.
Along with the new model, Anthropic launched several updates that include a Chrome browser extension for Claude, wider beta access to Claude for Excel for higher-tier users, and a desktop version of the Claude Code app. These announcements come shortly after Anthropic secured major investments from Microsoft (MSFT) and Nvidia (NVDA), which now value the company at $350 billion, compared to $183 billion just a few months ago.
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