Anthropic releases AI upgrade as market punishes software stocks

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Technology startup Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) connected Thursday launched what it called an improved artificial quality model, days aft its merchandise advances helped ​kick-start a selloff of accepted bundle stocks.

The San Francisco-based lab, which is backed ‌by Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google, said its Claude Opus 4.6 exemplary is an upgrade to the Opus 4.5 ‌model released successful November. The caller AI tin enactment connected tasks for longer and much reliably, portion showing gains related to coding and finance, Anthropic said.

Anthropic besides teased however this tech could process 1 cardinal pieces of information known arsenic "tokens" successful a azygous prompt, matching ⁠a capableness earlier claimed by ‌Google and a little almighty Claude model. And it previewed however this AI, successful the machine programming instrumentality Claude Code, could divvy up ‍tasks among aggregate autonomous agents and get enactment done faster.

Seen arsenic a disruptor successful the bundle industry, Anthropic is aiming to enactment astatine technology's frontier up of its highly anticipated archetypal nationalist offering, ​at a clip of contention from Google and OpenAI.

Software developers person embraced its ‌AI for coding. Anthropic is meantime making a propulsion for concern deals with products similar Claude Cowork, which executes machine tasks for white-collar workers.

The AI companies' swift deployments person stoked marketplace moves that foretell older bundle businesses volition suffer relevance arsenic AI beats them astatine their ain game. Shares of Salesforce, Workday and Thomson Reuters each traded astir ⁠3% little Thursday, extending declines implicit the past ​week.

Still, exertion manufacture figures, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, ​have dismissed specified concerns astir disruption, arguing that the specialized products, immense information and AI adoption of older bundle companies volition supply a moat.

Scott ‍White, Anthropic's caput of ⁠product for enterprise, besides said the extremity was to link AI to older bundle tools to marque them much useful.

"We are excited to spouse and really ⁠lower the level to get much worth retired of those tools," White told Reuters.

Claude Cowork, helium said, ‌is much similar "the beforehand doorway to getting hard enactment done."

(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin ‌in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)