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Anthropic releases Claude 4 Opus
Anthropic's fourth-generation top-tier flagship, raising the ceiling on multimodal understanding and logical tasks.
What happened
Event details
Claude 4 Opus is Anthropic's fourth-generation top-tier flagship, improving multimodal understanding and performance on logical tasks. Anthropic released the closed-source model on May 22, 2025; the parameter count is undisclosed and it is an autoregressive Transformer. The primary source is "Introducing Claude 4."
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Why it matters
Rated on the impact-v1 six-axis scale: technical 4/5, market 4/5, ecosystem 3/5, policy & social 1/5, scope 4/5, durability 4/5.
78/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.