Claude Opus 4.1 Launched: Smarter Coding & Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.1 launches with upgraded coding, reasoning & 200K context. Faster, smarter AI for developers & enterprises. Compare benchmarks & pricing.

Aug 06, 2025

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Claude Opus 4.1 is Here: Anthropic's Next-Gen AI Model for Coding and Beyond | by Servifyspheresolutions | Aug, 2025 | Medium

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What a coincidence! Just half an hour before Sam Altman officially announced two open-source reasoning models, Anthropic beat them to it by releasing their new model, Claude Opus 4.1.

In the past, it was always OpenAI stealing others' thunder, but this time it's OpenAI getting "intercepted"! History is always full of drama!

Comparing their tweet timestamps, it was literally back-to-back timing. I wonder if Anthropic got wind of the news in advance, or if it was just a coincidence, or perhaps Anthropic thought OpenAI was about to release GPT-5 and preemptively launched their model. With such close timing, it probably wasn't a coincidence. What do you all think?

Bar chart comparing software engineering accuracy between two versions of Opus 4. The first bar shows Opus 4 (May 2025) at 72.5% accuracy and the second bar shows Opus 4.1 (Aug 2025) at 74.5% accuracy.

Anyway, these companies releasing new models are basically following this cycle.

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Claude Opus 4.1 Launched: Smarter Coding & Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.1 launches with upgraded coding, reasoning & 200K context. Faster, smarter AI for developers & enterprises. Compare benchmarks & pricing.

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