Anthropic today announced general availability of Opus 4.6, its most advanced artificial intelligence models to date. This new release in fact represents the most important addition to Claude Code so far. It’s designed not just for data scientists or data engineers, but software engineers, product managers, finance analysts, etc. Hot on the heels of Opus 4.5 in November, Opus 4.6 seeks to expand the model’s functionality and attractiveness to a variety of sectors, industries, and uses even further.
With Opus 4.6, we’ve made a fantastic improvement with its new extended context window. Now with support for a whopping 1 million tokens of context! This change significantly increases the model’s ability to remember more relevant information throughout user interactions. As a knowledge worker tool—especially those who work with massive amounts of data—it’s thus made all the more valuable. This new context capability aligns with what Anthropic’s Sonnet versions 4 and 4.5 provide today.
Opus has evolved from an internal software development tool into a dynamic-stewardship asset. Today, it serves the demands of a wider variety of public sector use cases. Claude Code is aimed at people who are not full-time software developers. It provides smart, cutting-edge AI support to enable them to do their absolute best work. The increased feature set has opened till users across industries, enabling them to empower their teams with best-in-class AI technology.
Opus 4.6 includes a major new feature that we’re very excited about: agent teams. This makes it easier for you to break out much bigger efforts into smaller, manageable bites. This creative strategy enables several agents to proceed in parallel on various sections of a project, greatly multiplying output and saving tremendous time and money.
“Instead of one agent working through tasks sequentially, you can split the work across multiple agents—each owning its piece and coordinating directly with the others,” – Anthropic
Scott White, the Head of Product at Anthropic, emphasized the benefit of this feature, stating that it allows agents “to coordinate in parallel [and work] faster.”
Along with these doc- and custom-specific enhancements, Opus 4.6 brings Claude a step closer to direct integration with PowerPoint as an easily-accessible side panel. Prior to this improvement, users had to export presentations generated by Claude into PowerPoint to continue building them there. This process was duplicative and difficult to navigate. This direct integration simplifies this workflow and creates a more seamless user experience.