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Anthropic Introduced Claude Opus 4.6, It’s first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta Opus 4.6 plans more carefully, sustains agentic tasks for longer, operates reliably in massive codebases, and catches its own mistakes Opus 4.6 is SOTA on several evaluations including agentic coding, multi-discipline reasoning, knowledge work, and agentic search Anthropic also shipping new features across Claude in Excel, Claude in PowerPoint, Claude Code, and API to let Opus 4.6 do even more Claude in Excel now handles long-running and harder tasks with improved performance It can plan before acting, support richer functionalities like conditional formatting and data validation, and handle multi-step changes in one pass On Claude Code Anthropic introduced agent teams Spin up multiple agents that coordinate autonomously and work in parallel—best for tasks that can be split up and tackled independently Agent teams are in research preview