Anthropic release Claude Opus 4.6 to move further into the Enterprise

By Matthew Griffin Intelligence and the Senses 6th December 2025

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

Claude Opus is taking the world by storm with its AI coding abilities and now its been upgraded with bigger context windows and more features.

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Not even seven months after Claude Opus 4.0 was released Anthropic announced this week that Claude Opus 4.6, a new version of its flagship Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that it described as a direct upgrade to Claude Opus 4.5, designed for enterprise and knowledge work.

The model is built around three outcomes Anthropic considers critical for enterprise use, including finding information, analyzing it and producing finished outputs, according to the announcement. Claude Opus 4.6 is intended to execute those steps end-to-end, generating documents, spreadsheets and presentations with fewer revisions and outputs closer to production-ready quality on the first attempt.

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The release also includes a set of technical and workflow-focused updates intended to support deeper integration of AI into business processes, per the announcement.

Claude Opus 4.6 is the first Opus model to support a 1 million-token context window, available in beta through the company’s developer platform. The longer context window is intended to allow the model to work with larger collections of documents, internal data or extensive codebases within a single task, the announcement said.

Anthropic also introduced a feature called Agent Teams. It allows multiple AI agents to work on different parts of a task in parallel rather than sequentially, with each agent coordinating directly with others, according to the announcement. The feature is slated to be available in research preview for API users and subscription customers.

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In addition, Claude Opus 4.6 will be integrated directly into Microsoft PowerPoint in a research preview. In that setting, the model can read existing slide layouts, fonts and templates, and then generate or edit slides in a way that preserves those design elements, the announcement said. The integration will be available in beta to Max, Team and Enterprise plan customers.

In outlining use cases, Anthropic said in the announcement that the model delivers improved performance across areas that have been focal points for enterprise AI, including financial modelling, coding and enterprise workflows. Claude Opus 4.6 can combine regulatory filings, market reports and internal data to produce analyses that would otherwise take analysts days. It can also work across dozens of tools in a single task, recovering from errors along the way.

The model builds on prior capabilities in coding, particularly for large codebases, long-horizon tasks, bug detection and complex implementations. Anthropic described it in the announcement as “more agentic” in software workflows.

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The Claude Opus 4.6 announcement arrived amid wider interest in enterprise AI tools that can be customized for specific job functions. In January, Anthropic added support for plugins to Cowork, its AI collaborator platform, enabling users to tailor Claude to particular workflows by specifying how tasks should be done, which tools and data to use, and what commands to expose to the user’s team.

Competition for enterprise AI customers is intensifying. It was reported last month that both Anthropic and OpenAI are increasingly focused on winning enterprise deployments.

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