Anthropic says new Claude Sonnet 4.6 is significantly better at laptop use

Anthropic claims its new Claude mannequin showcases ‘human-level functionality’ in multi-step duties.

Anthropic has stated that builders choose Claude Sonnet 4.6 to its predecessor, the Sonnet 4.5, “by a large margin”. A majority of the customers, it claimed, appreciated the brand new mannequin even over Opus 4.5, the corporate’s newest frontier mannequin.

The most recent mannequin launches simply after Anthropic introduced a $30bn Sequence G elevate earlier this month led by Coatue Administration and Singapore’s GIC. The spherical took the AI large to a post-money valuation of $380bn – greater than doubling its estimate from the earlier funding spherical introduced final September.

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Claude Sonnet 4.6 isn’t quelling these fears, with Anthropic boasting that the brand new mannequin reveals a “main enchancment” in laptop use expertise in comparison with prior Sonnet fashions. The corporate first launched laptop use with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku again in 2024.

The brand new mannequin, Anthropic stated, showcases “human-level functionality” in duties corresponding to navigating a fancy spreadsheet or filling out a multi-step internet type.

Based on early customers, Sonnet 4.6 reads context extra successfully, is much less liable to overengineering and “laziness”, and is “meaningfully higher” at taking instruction. These customers have additionally reported fewer false claims of success, fewer hallucinations and extra constant follow-through on multi-step duties.

Total, the brand new mannequin approaches Opus-level intelligence at a lesser value level, Anthropic stated. Sonnet 4.6 is similar to Opus 4.6 in agentic coding, agentic laptop use and agentic instrument use, whereas being higher at agentic monetary evaluation and workplace duties.

The mannequin is offered on all Claude plans, together with the free tier, which now defaults to Sonnet 4.6. Based on Anthropic, evaluations recommend that Sonnet 4.6 is protected “total”, and safer than its current Claude fashions.

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