Anthropic Says Its Newest AI Model Is Getting Pretty Good at Using a Computer

Developers are getting a huge boost from the larger 1 million token context window. Early testers of Claude Code reported that Sonnet 4.6 is capable of reading context before modifying code, consolidates logic instead of duplicating it and avoids overengineering and “laziness” that earlier models suffer from.

The AI company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used fraudulent accounts and proxy services to extract Claude’s capabilities at scale, even as experts point out that the industry itself relies heavily on publicly available data.

The Claude Sonnet 4.6 shows 'major improvement' in computer use skills when compared to prior Sonnet models, Anthropic claimed.

Version 4.6 can also be 'warm, honest, prosocial, and at times funny' Anthropic has updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6 and claims the upgrade is better at coding and using computers, and also possesses improved reasoning and planning capabilities.

Anthropic launched the latest version of Claude Sonnet on Tuesday, which it says “approaches Opus-level intelligence,” featuring improvements in coding and computer use with tasks like navigating spreadsheets or filling out web forms.

Anthropic today updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6, and the company says it is the most capable Sonnet model to date with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning,

Anthropic is disrupting knowledge work with new plugins capable of financial analysis, investment banking, engineering, and much more.