Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.5 with Advanced Features
Action Required
Users must migrate to Claude Opus 4.5 or newer models to leverage the new capabilities and avoid disruptions to existing applications.
AI Impact Summary
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.5, a significant upgrade to their Claude model family, introducing advanced capabilities like vision, coding, and computer use alongside new features such as programmatic tool calling, tool search, and effort parameter control. This release includes updates to the API, client SDKs, and the Claude Console, and expands the context window to 1M tokens for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, while also introducing features like automatic caching and data residency controls. The move to effort parameter for controlling thinking depth represents a key shift in how users interact with the model's reasoning capabilities.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high