World ↗Canonical event
Claude 3 Opus and Sonnet become available with vision
Anthropic made Opus and Sonnet available through Claude and its API with image understanding and a 200K initial context window.
Artifacts
Signals
- Users gained discoverable customized assistants, another paid frontier assistant and a limited cross-chat memory test; this shows available interaction choices rather than population-wide adoption.supported inference
- Vision-capable assistants broadened across providers; selected million-token multimodal experiments and video-generation research expanded the model interface beyond Q4's available products.supported inference
- Customized-assistant distribution and developer-facing vision/long-context products expanded, while software-engineering delegation remained early access.supported inference