Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 with Multi-Agent Teams Feature to Rival OpenAI's Codex
Summary
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4.6 featuring revolutionary 'agent teams' that enable multiple AI agents to autonomously divide and tackle tasks in parallel, boasting enhanced coding abilities, 1 million token context window, and benchmark-leading performance while competing directly with OpenAI's multi-agent technology.
Key Points
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 with new 'agent teams' feature that allows multiple AI agents to split up tasks autonomously and work in parallel, matching OpenAI's Codex multi-agent capabilities
- The updated model offers improved coding and review skills, better task planning, a 1 million token context window, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks including Terminal-Bench 2.0
- While Opus 4.6 provides enhanced capabilities for complex coding and reasoning tasks, early testing shows no observable jump in output quality for simpler use cases, though it may add cost and latency to basic operations