ℹ️ Quick Answer: Claude Opus 4.6 launched today with three standout features. “Agent teams” let multiple AI agents split tasks and work in parallel. A 1 million token context window (in beta) can process about 1,500 pages in a single prompt. And Claude now works inside PowerPoint. Pricing stays at $5/$25 per million tokens on the API.
Anthropic and OpenAI both dropped major announcements today. Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s new flagship model, and the upgrades go beyond the usual “it’s smarter” claims.
I’ve been using Claude daily for close to a year. Here’s what actually matters in this release.
Agent Teams: Claude Opus 4.6 Splits the Work
This is the feature that caught my attention. Instead of one AI agent working through a task step by step, Claude Opus 4.6 introduces “agent teams.” Multiple agents can now tackle different parts of a project simultaneously and coordinate with each other.
Think of it like assigning a group project instead of giving everything to one person. One agent reviews code while another researches documentation while a third writes tests. They share results and stay in sync.
Right now this is available in Claude Code as a research preview, designed for tasks like codebase reviews that split naturally into independent subtasks. For developers, this is a big deal. For everyone else, it signals where AI assistants are heading. Your future AI won’t just be one helper. It’ll be a whole team.
1 Million Token Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6 can now process about 1,500 pages of text, 30,000 lines of code, or over an hour of video in a single prompt. That’s an entire book worth of information at once.
The context window is in beta, and Anthropic says the model scores 76% accuracy on retrieving specific details from within that massive context. The previous model scored 18.5% on the same test. That’s not a typo. It also supports up to 128,000 output tokens, so it can generate much longer responses than before.
Claude in PowerPoint
This one matters for anyone who builds presentations. Claude can now sit inside PowerPoint as a side panel, reading your existing layouts, fonts, and templates. Ask it to build a deck and it actually matches your brand instead of producing generic slides.
Available as a research preview for Max, Team, and Enterprise plan users. Anthropic also improved Claude in Excel for longer tasks and unstructured data.
How Claude Opus 4.6 Stacks Up
Anthropic says Opus 4.6 beats both GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro on most benchmarks. The model outperforms GPT-5.2 by about 144 Elo points on general reasoning. On legal tasks (BigLaw Bench), it scored 90.2%. On life sciences, it performed nearly twice as well as the previous Opus.
The security angle is also worth noting. Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.6 found over 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities in open source code using just its default capabilities. That’s both impressive and a little unsettling.
What This Means for You
If you already use Claude, the upgrade is automatic on claude.ai. It’s live now. You’ll notice better answers on complex questions and the ability to feed it much longer documents.
If you’ve never tried Claude, this is a solid time to start. Check out our Claude Opus 4.5 review for context on how the previous version performed, or visit our Start Here page if you’re new to AI tools.
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