Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful model to date, bringing multi-agent collaboration in Claude Code, an enormous context window, and new integrations with Office tools, including PowerPoint.
The new “team agent” feature allows multiple AI agents to share a single project and work in parallel instead of step by step. Opus 4.6 introduces a 1 million token context window, making it ideal for large documents and code, while new sidebars in Excel and PowerPoint allow Claude to read existing templates and generate models or presentations directly, without the need to copy and paste.
The model dominated most agent benchmark tests, including a nearly 70% jump on ARC-AGI-2, although OAI’s Codex 5.3 soon took the lead in agent coding. For developers, this is a significant milestone, as both updates bring substantial growth in capabilities, while critics claiming AI is “hitting a wall” remain quiet in the face of such progress.
In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- Claude Code creator Boris Cherny released a guide on using this agent tool for coding, including managing up to 15 parallel sessions simultaneously.
- OpenAI Chief Product Officer Fidji Simo outlined the 2026 product roadmap in a new blog, stating the goal of turning ChatGPT into a proactive “personal super-assistant.”
- Abu Dhabi’s TII released Falcon H1R 7B, a small hybrid reasoning model that outperforms competitors up to seven times larger in mathematics and programming, with double the inference speed.
- Microsoft renamed its Office 365 productivity suite to Microsoft 365 Copilot app, using the same branding as its AI assistant.
- According to Wall Street Journal, Anthropic is reportedly raising $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion, doubling its value compared to the last $13 billion round in September.
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