Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · 2025

Claude 4

Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 work autonomously on coding tasks for hours.

Released May 22, 2025, Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 scored 72.5% and 72.7% on SWE-bench Verified. Anthropic deployed Opus 4 under its ASL-3 safeguards, the first model released at that protection level.

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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)