On Monday, the company introduced Claude Opus 4.5 and described it as its most advanced AI model to date, and said that the new model "scored higher than any human candidate ever" on "a notoriously difficult take-home exam" that the company gives prospective engineering candidates. In a blog post on Monday, Anthropic said that the two-hour take-home test is designed to assess technical ability and judgment under time pressure, and though it doesn't reflect all skills an engineer needs to possess,
Anthropic is once again raising the bar in the AI race. On Monday, the company unveiled Claude Opus 4.5, which it calls its most advanced AI model yet, just three months after its previous release. Anthropic says the latest version delivers major improvements in generating computer code and workplace documents, such as Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. It also includes new capabilities for creating more sophisticated, long-running AI agents.