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Artificial intelligence · 2025

Claude Sonnet 4.5

An agentic coding model that sustains focus on tasks for over 30 hours.

Released September 29, 2025, Claude Sonnet 4.5 led SWE-bench Verified at 77.2% and OSWorld computer use at 61.4%, up from 42% four months earlier. Anthropic released the Claude Agent SDK alongside it.

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