Krieger: Sonnet 4.5 First Anthropic Model With Upstream Product Input
Mike Krieger · ⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic · Sep 30, 2025 · at 2:05
Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at Anthropic, explains how research and product collaboration evolved during the development of Claude Sonnet 4.5.
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“What was interesting about this model in particular is that it was really the first one where Product was upstream of research and downstream of research.”
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