Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company's four-month update cycle. In a post announcing the new model, Anthropic emphasized improvements in coding, instruction-following, and computer use. The beta release of Sonnet 4.6 will include a context window of 1 million tokens, twice the size of the largest window previously available for Sonnet. Anthropic described the new context window as 'enough to hold entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or dozens of research papers in a single request.' The launch comes with a new set of record benchmark scores, including OS World for computer use and SWE-Bench for software engineering. But perhaps the most impressive is its 60.4% score on ARC-AGI-2, meant to measure skills specific to human intelligence. The score puts Sonnet 4.6 above most comparable models, although it still trails models like Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Deep Think, and one refined version of GPT 5.2. Tickets are live at the lowest...
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