Anthropic's "smartest model" is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus 4.6. It called the new model a "direct upgrade" from its predecessor in a release, noting that it can better take on complex, multi-step tasks and get "much closer to production-re ady quality on the first try than what we've seen with any model - documents, spreadsheets, and presentations will need less back-and-forth on iterations." It's available starting today with the same pricing as its predecessor, and according to the company, its particular strengths are in agentic coding, tool use, search, and financial analysis. But mos … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less