Claude 4

Anthropic:

Today, we’re introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.

Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions.

It’s almost as though this is a fast-moving field.

There’s a recent rumor — from Mark Gurman, natch — that Apple is partnering with Anthropic to integrate Claude with Xcode. So Apple doesn’t have to do everything themselves. Developers, in particular, love modularity and choices. But whatever they do, once-a-year updates to “Apple Intelligence” aren’t going to cut it. Since last WWDC there have been dozens of AI code generation advances across the industry. Just last week OpenAI announced Codex, their “cloud-based software engineering agent”. Meanwhile, Apple’s Swift Assist still hasn’t shipped.

★ Thursday, 22 May 2025