The company that wiped off nearly $300 billion from software stocks in one day releases new AI model

Anthropic, the AI startup whose workplace tool triggered a massive sell-off in software stocks earlier this week, has launched Claude Opus 4.6—its most powerful model yet. The timing couldn’t be more loaded.

The new model, announced Thursday, brings stronger coding abilities, a 1 million token context window (up from 200,000), and a feature called “agent teams” that lets multiple AI agents split tasks and work in parallel.