Claude Sonnet 4.6 Launches on Chinese New Year with Opus-Level Coding Power
Anthropic unveiled Claude Sonnet 4.6 on February 18, touting Opus-level coding ability, a 1 million-token context window, and unchanged pricing; benchmarks show a SWE-bench score of 79.6% (up from 77.2%), OSWorld 72.5% (vs 61.4%), and GPQA Diamond 89.9%, while industry leaders praise its reduced laziness, stronger instruction following, and strategic long-term planning.
