Anthropic announces its Claude 4 family of models

On the heels of Microsoft Build and Google I/O, Anthropic has just announced Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus, which are immediately available on Claude’s website, as well as in the API. Here’s what’s new. Better at coding and at … Pokémon According to Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 4 (its mid-tier model, between Raiku and Opus) significantly improves at coding, reasoning, and instruction following compared to its predecessor, Claude Sonnet 3.7. As for Claude Opus 4, Anthropic says it matches or outperforms OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro in benchmarks for multilingual Q&A, agentic tool use, agentic terminal coding, agentic coding, and graduate-level reasoning: This is especially significant because, while Claude spent most of last year at the top of developers’ preferred models for coding tasks, it has fallen behind in recent weeks after multiple model updates by OpenAI and Google. And speaking of Google, its Gemini 2.5 Pro model made the rounds recently after it completed a ... Read full article.