Anthropic releases more powerful AI model Opus 4.1 ahead of others

Golden Finance reported that as OpenAI is about to release its long-awaited GPT-5, Anthropic will release its most powerful AI model Opus 4.1 on Tuesday. The company stated that Opus 4.1 has stronger capabilities in programming, research, and data analysis, and performs better in handling complex multi-step problems, making it more competent for intelligent agent tasks. This update marks a shift in the company's strategy, which is to focus more on progressive improvements to the coding model while launching larger versions of the model. Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer of Anthropic, said, "In the past, we were too focused on releasing major upgraded versions. Now we are more focused on making the model continuously better in all aspects - whether it's programming, inference, or autonomous task execution