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Anthropic's new AI model, Claude Opus 4.5, has arrived.
The model reportedly excels at creative problem-solving.
It also excels at agentic tasks, according to Anthropic.
AI startup Anthropic released its latest model, Claude Opus 4.5, on Monday, describing it in a company blog post as "a step forward in what AI systems can do, and a preview of changes to how work gets done."
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The new model outperforms other industry-leading apps such as Google's Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI's GPT-5.1 on coding tasks, according to Anthropic.
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