
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Arrives With 1M Context and Near-Opus Coding Performance
Anthropic's new mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, ships a million-token context window, and keeps the same $3/$15 pricing as its predecessor.

Anthropic's new mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, ships a million-token context window, and keeps the same $3/$15 pricing as its predecessor.

The India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi draws 20 world leaders and CEOs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepMind. Adani pledges $100 billion for AI data centers, Anthropic opens its first India office, and 12 indigenous AI models are unveiled.

Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly close to designating Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' after the company refused to allow Claude to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. A $200 million contract hangs in the balance.

xAI previews Grok 4.20 with enhanced multimodal capabilities and further reduced hallucinations, building on Grok 4.1's success. The company also teases a 6 trillion parameter Grok 5.

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5, a 397B parameter open-source multimodal model with 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, and performance that tops Python coding and math reasoning benchmarks.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex, a frontier coding model that is 25% faster, sets new records on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0, and was instrumental in creating itself.