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Claude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 1: Mundane Alignment + MW

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Claude Opus 4.6 is here. There is a lot to say.

Claude Opus 4.6 is here. It was built with and mostly evaluated by Claude. Their headline pitch includes: 1M token context window (in beta) with State of the art retrieval performance. Improved abilities on a range of everyday work tasks. Model is improved. State of the art on some evaluations, including Terminal-Bench 2.0, HLE and a very strong lead in GDPval-AA. Claude Code now has an experimental feature called Agent Teams. Claude Code with Opus 4.6 has a new fast (but actually expensive) mode. Upgrades to Claude in Excel and the release of Claude in PowerPoint. Other notes:…

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