Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5 as Google's Gemini 3 gains big backers

Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) on Monday debuted its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.5. The announcement comes after Google (GOOG, GOOGL) rolled out its Gemini 3, which quickly won praise for its performance and capabilities and helped push the company's stock price higher. Anthropic said Opus 4.5 is its most powerful model yet and claims it's the best in the world for "coding, agents, and computer use." Those kinds of skills are important because Anthropic is seen as a leader in AI coding, and ensuring it maintains ...