Paying Anthropic customers can now teach their Claude new tricks, which the company calls Skills. Despite much talk about superintelligence, AI models can be clueless when it comes to interacting with specific applications. Sure, they can parse PDF text, but they probably don’t know how to fill in a PDF form. Skills, or Agent Skills for jargon maximalists, offer a …
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Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their agents actually useful for end users, whether they’re consumers or professionals. Anthropic on Thursday announced its next step toward that goal: Skills for Claude. The tool is made up of “folders that include …
Read More »Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 \ Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users. What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model. Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed. Claude Haiku 4.5 even …
Read More »Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5, a model it says can build software and accomplish business tasks autonomously
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, its newest AI model, claiming significant advancements in autonomous work and coding. The company said that the model was able to run autonomously for 30 hours, maintaining sustained focus with minimal oversight while building an entire software application. It’s a significant improvement over the company’s previous Opus 4 model, released four months ago, which …
Read More »Enabling Claude Code to work more autonomously \ Anthropic
We’re introducing several upgrades to Claude Code: a native VS Code extension, version 2.0 of our terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation. Powered by Sonnet 4.5, Claude Code now handles longer, more complex development tasks in your terminal and IDE. Claude Code on more surfaces VS Code extension We’re introducing a native VS Code extension in beta that brings …
Read More »Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, its best AI model for coding
On Monday, Anthropic launched a new frontier model called Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims to offer state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks. The company says Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building “production-ready” applications, rather than just prototypes, representing a leap in reliability from previous AI models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 will be available via the Claude API and in the …
Read More »Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy
Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when it had completed the task. The model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, was announced today, and its ability to operate autonomously for 30 hours straight …
Read More »Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 \ Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building complex agents. It’s the best model at using computers. And it shows substantial gains in reasoning and math. Code is everywhere. It runs every application, spreadsheet, and software tool you use. Being able to use those tools and reason through hard problems is …
Read More »Anthropic to Triple Its International Workforce amid Demand for Its Claude Models
AI firm Anthropic said on Friday that it will triple its international workforce and grow its applied AI team by five times this year in order to keep up with the rising global demand for its Claude models. Indeed, the company explained that nearly 80% of Claude’s consumer usage now comes from outside the U.S., with people in countries like …
Read More »Meta’s (META) Llama AI Cleared for U.S. Govt Use, Joining Gemini and Claude
Meta’s (META) artificial intelligence system, Llama, is the latest toolkit from a U.S. tech giant to be approved by the American government for use by its agencies. The update comes several weeks after Google’s (GOOGL) Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude were also sanctioned for use in government operations. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% …
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