I was hoping for a Sonnet as well but Opus 4.6 is great too!

Hmm all leaks had said this would be Claude 5. Wonder if it was a last minute demotion due to performance. Would explain the few days' delay as well.

Works pretty nicely for research still, not seeing a substantial qualitative improvement over Opus 4.5.

Does this mean 4.5 will get cheaper / take longer to exhaust my pro plan tokens?

Anecdotal, but it 1 shot fixed a UI bug that neither Opus 4.5/Codex 5.2-high could fix.

Does anyone else think its unethical that large companies, Anthropic now include, just take and copy features that other developers or smaller companies work hard for and implement the intellectual property (whether or not patented) by them without attribution, compensation or otherwise credit for their work?

I know this is normalized culture for large corporate America and seems to be ok, I think its unethical, undignified and just wrong.

If you were in my room physically, built a lego block model of a beautiful home and then I just copied it and shared it with the world as my own invention, wouldn't you think "that guy's a thief and a fraud" but we normalize this kind of behavior in the software world. edit: I think even if we don't yet have a great way to stop it or address the underlying problems leading to this way of behavior, we ought to at least talk about it more and bring awareness to it that "hey that's stealing - I want it to change".

What I’d love is some small model specializing in reading long web pages, and extracting the key info. Search fills the context very quickly, but if a cheap subagent could extract the important bits that problem might be reduced.

1M context window is a big bump very happy

I have the max subscription wondering if this gives access to the new 1M context, or is it just the API that gets it?