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Indian Express
4 days ago
- Business
- Indian Express
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 gets 1 million token boost for advanced coding and data tasks
Claude Sonnet 4 can now take up to 1 million context windows. This means users and developers could write prompts that are longer than books. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has integrated this new update to attract more developer-centric businesses to their AI model. This new token context window for Anthropic's Claude is five times larger compared to its previous model and double that of ChatGPT-5's window. This now lets you write 75,000 lines of code or 750,000 words, in a single prompt. Anthropic has raised one of the largest enterprise businesses among AI model developers, mostly by selling their AI coding platform Claude to Windsurf, Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and Anysphere's Cursor. And for most developers, it seems to be their go-to AI model, but the new ChatGPT-5 may threaten them with its great subscription model and coding performance The expanded context window for Claude allows developers to tackle more complex and data-heavy tasks. Anthropic said that this includes large-scale code analysis, where developers can load entire codebases and have Claude understand the project's architecture, identify dependencies, and suggest improvements. This also enables document synthesis, allowing the processing of vast sets of documents, such as legal contracts or research papers, to analyse relationships between them while keeping a full understanding of the context. Anthropic also claims that developers can build more sophisticated context-aware agents that can maintain a complete understanding of multi-step workflows, API documentation, and interaction histories, even across hundreds of tool calls. On the contrary, OpenAI generates most of its revenue through the sale of its subscription to their AI model, ChatGPT, and Anthropic's business is oriented towards selling AI models to business enterprises through an application platform interface. Last week, Anthropic unveiled an updated version of its largest AI model, Claude Opus 4.1, which pushed the company's AI coding capabilities a bit further. In broad terms, AI models that have more context perform better on all tasks, but particularly on software engineering challenges. Additionally, Brad Abrams, the product lead for Claude, in an interview with TechCrunch, said that Claude's broad context window improves its performance on lengthy agentic coding assignments, where the AI model works on an issue on its own for minutes or hours. Claude can recall every step it has taken in long-horizon activities when it has a broad context window. Large context windows have been overdone by some businesses, who assert that their AI models are capable of processing enormous amounts of cues. For Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google provides a context window of two million tokens, while Meta provides a context window of ten million tokens for Llama 4 Scout. To account for the extra computing power required for large requests, Anthropic will increase the cost for Claude Sonnet 4 API users when prompts exceed 200,000 tokens. The input token price will double from $3 to $6 per million tokens, and the output token price will increase from $15 to $22.50 per million tokens.
Business Insider
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Amazon-Backed (AMZN) Anthropic Just Announced a Big Upgrade
Amazon-backed (AMZN) Anthropic is making a big upgrade to its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model by increasing the context window for enterprise API customers to one million tokens. For context, that is enough to handle about 750,000 words and 75,000 lines of code. This is a major jump from the previous 200,000 token limit and more than double OpenAI's GPT-5, which offers 400,000 tokens. The new long-context feature will also be available through Anthropic's cloud partners, including Amazon's Bedrock and Google (GOOGL) Cloud's Vertex AI. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. This comes as OpenAI's new GPT-5 model offers lower pricing and high coding performance. Nevertheless, Anthropic's product lead, Brad Abrams, says that he is pleased with the firm's API growth and expects the longer context to bring 'a lot of benefit' to coding platforms. Interestingly, unlike OpenAI, which earns most of its revenue from ChatGPT subscriptions, Anthropic focuses on selling AI through APIs, which makes developer-focused platforms critical to its business. The company also recently updated its largest model, Claude Opus 4.1, to improve its coding capabilities. It is worth noting that having a larger context window can make AI far better at tasks like software engineering, where seeing the entire project leads to more accurate results. Abrams said that it also improves Claude's ability to work on 'agentic' coding tasks, which are complex problems that require the AI to keep track of its steps over minutes or hours. In addition, for API users sending prompts over 200,000 tokens, costs will rise to $6 per million input tokens and $22.50 per million output tokens, up from $3 and $15, respectively. What Is the Price Target for AMZN Stock? Turning to Wall Street, analysts have a Strong Buy consensus rating on Amazon stock based on 43 Buys and one Hold assigned in the past three months. Furthermore, the average AMZN stock price target of $264.40 per share implies 19.1% upside potential from current levels.
