Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 launch with hybrid thinking and SWE-bench records
newsAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 with hybrid instant-and-extended thinking, setting new SWE-bench records at 72.5% and 72.7% respectively.11 min read
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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 with hybrid instant-and-extended thinking, setting new SWE-bench records at 72.5% and 72.7% respectively.11 min read
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DeepSeek V4 launches with 1 trillion total parameters, native multimodal capabilities, a 1M token context window, and pricing 50x cheaper than GPT-5.2 — all open-source and optimized for Huawei chips.12 min read