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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Nears Opus 4.6 Abilities & Anthropic Applies Higher Risk Controls

Claude Sonnet 4.6, Anthropic’s latest mid-tier AI model, is narrowing the gap with its flagship counterpart, Opus 4.6, in several critical domains. As outlined by Claudius Papirus, this model excels in structured problem-solving tasks, including coding, mathematical reasoning, and autonomous web browsing. While it demonstrates remarkable precision and adaptability, its performance also raises questions about […] The post Claude Sonnet 4.6 Nears …
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Anthropic has just announced Claude Sonnet 4.6, a new version of his Sonnet family that points to a very specific goal: to offer a performance close to its high range, Opus, with a more “practical” cost and availability for the day to day. The company itself defines it as a complete update of programming skills, computer use, reasoning with long context, agent planning, office work and design, and puts it as a default model for users of Free and…

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Claude Sonnet's announcement 4.6 reactivated the conversation about which AI model it is best to use today for programming tasks, information analysis and work with large volumes of context. Anthropic presented this version as an update of its Sonnet line and pointed out improvements in consistency, instruction tracking, computer usage and reasoning in long contexts. Read: OpenClaw's creator put OpenAI and Anthropic to compete: the difference th…

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Announced on 17 February 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.6 embodies the new offensive of Anthropic. More ambitious in programming, agents and processing of large documents, the model aims to bring Opus' performance closer without increasing its rates. Good news for Claude's users: 17 February

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Numerama broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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