Anthropic releases AI upgrade as market punishes software stocks


FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Technology ‌startup Anthropic on Thursday launched what it called an improved artificial intelligence model, ‌days after its product advances helped kick-starta selloff of traditional software stocks.

The San ‌Francisco-based lab, which is backed by Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google, said its Claude Opus 4.6 model is an upgrade to the Opus 4.5 model released in November. The new AI can work on tasks for longer ‍and more reliably, while showing gains related to coding ‍and finance, Anthropic said.

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