Anthropic says its new AI model is better at coding and office work
Anthropic is rolling out a new version of its most powerful
artificial intelligence model that is designed to be better at automating coding and office tasks, part of an effort to compete with OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google for business customers.
The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, was more capable than previous versions at software engineering work, like fixing bugs, without needing a user’s help, Anthropic said. Opus 4.5, released on Monday, is also intended to be better at carrying out complicated multistep tasks on a user’s computer and the internet.
Founded in 2021 by former employees of OpenAI, San Francisco-based Anthropic now has more than 300,000 business customers who use its models to streamline workplace tasks – particularly in the field of computer programming, where the start-up has emerged as a market leader.
But Anthropic faces intense competition from OpenAI and Google, the latter of which impressed the AI community and investors last week with
the release of Gemini 3. Google’s new model is designed to be better at coding, among other jobs.
Anthropic’s new model has hit a new coding milestone of sorts, according to Scott White, head of product for Claude AI models. Opus 4.5 was the first to score higher than any of the company’s human candidates on a challenging take-home engineering assignment that prospective employees were asked to complete, he said.
