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Anthropic introduces Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4

Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, offering both direct responses and extended thinking.

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The release emphasized coding and longer agent workflows. Those are the vendor's product priorities, not proof of a universal winner.

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Revision 1 / Reviewed 9/21/2026

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