Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.5: Faster, Cheaper, and Crazy Good at Coding
November 24, 2025. Anthropic has officially launched Claude Opus 4.5, a major refresh of its top-tier model and the company’s strongest push yet in the fight for AI leadership. Coming just days after Google’s Gemini 3 debut, the new Opus arrives with a sharp focus on professional coding, long-running agents, and desk-work automation—and Anthropic is backing the launch with aggressive pricing and hard benchmark data. The company says Opus 4.5 is now the leading model for real-world software engineering, slide and spreadsheet editing, and multi-step agentic workflows. Early numbers support the claim, with the model showing large performance gains across enterprise tasks. And in a move aimed at accelerating adoption, Anthropic has cut Opus […]
