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Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with expanded context and agent workflow features. Million-token context is beta and agent teams are a research preview rather than unrestricted production automation.

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Claude Opus 4.6 is released

Thu Feb 05 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Claude Opus 4.6 is released

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Claude Opus 4.6 is released

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