Opus 4
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Cherny: Claude Code user growth went exponential following the Opus 4 release
“And Opus four was our first kind of ASL three class model that we released back in May. And we just saw this inflection because everyone started to use quad code for the first time. And that, that was kind of when our growth really went exponential. And like I…”
Krieger: Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 Lose Focus Over Long Coding Horizons
“So for example one of them was you know, Claude, you know, Sonnet four and even Opus four, Opus is our biggest model is good at writing code, but, you know, tends to get sidetracked or lost if it's working over longer time horizon. So that was a real emphasis …”
Krieger: Claude Sonnet 4.5 beats Opus across categories at one-fifth the cost
“So, 4.5 sine 4.5 basically outdoes Opus, our largest model in effectively every category, but does so while running faster and at a fifth the cost. So if you think about where we were in May at, you know, code with Claude, we were announcing, announcing Opus f…”
Sonnet 4.5 ran autonomously for 30 hours versus 7 for Opus 4
“So this, you know, we had a customer and internally, we also got like a 30 hour plus kind of execution versus I think Opus four was seven hours.”
Cherny: Claude Code hit its stride with Sonnet 4 and Opus 4
“We started building quad code when it was still Sonnet at 3.5 and it was okay. And then with, you know, 3.6 and 3.7, it was still, it was fine. It was pretty good. But then when Sonnet four and Opus four came out, that's when it really hit its stride and we fe…”