Claude 4: Anthropic's Next Frontier Generation
Claude 4 extended the Sonnet and Opus tiers and pushed Anthropic further into agentic, multi-step automation.
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- Anthropic Guide Research Desk
01Focus of the release
Anthropic released Claude 4 in May 2025 across Sonnet and Opus tiers, emphasising sustained multi-step task execution, tool use and improved performance on software engineering benchmarks.
The release was accompanied by expanded developer tooling for agentic workflows, where a model executes long sequences of actions with limited supervision.
02Commercial read-through
Agentic workloads consume substantially more tokens per task than conversational use. If adoption holds, that raises revenue per customer — and also raises the compute cost of serving them.
