Artificial intelligence · 2025

Claude Code

An agent in the terminal that reads, edits, tests and commits across a codebase.

Anthropic launched Claude Code as a research preview on February 24, 2025 and made it generally available on May 22, 2025. Along with OpenAI's Codex agent and Cursor, it moved AI coding from autocomplete to delegated multi-hour tasks.

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What it built on 3

Claude 3.7 Sonnet 2025
Computer use agents 2024
Model Context Protocol 2024

What it led to 3

Claude 4 2025
Claude Cowork 2026
Autonomous AI researchers ~2029

Watch

Introducing Claude CodeAnthropic · YouTube

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

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