Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI rival, has launched its most powerful group of AI models yet, called Claude 4 and Sonnet 4. According to Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief science officer, the company stopped investing in chatbots at the end of last year and focused on improving these models’ ability to perform complex tasks.
Anthropic claims that Claude Opus 4 is the “best coding model in the world” and can autonomously work for nearly a full corporate workday – seven hours. Both models can search the web, alternate between reasoning and tool use, and extract key facts from local files.
Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, uses these models to write content, stating that most of his writing is now generated by Opus 4, which he finds unrecognizable from his own writing. The company says these models are defining a “new standard” in AI agents and can analyze thousands of data sources.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, more than doubling from last year. The company recently received a $2.5 billion revolving credit line to expand its liquidity in the competitive AI market.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/claude-4-opus-sonnet-anthropic.html