Topic: "open-sourcing"

May 22
Anthropic releases Claude 4 Sonnet and Opus: Memory, Agent Capabilities, Claude Code, Redteam Drama
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Anthropic has officially released Claude 4 with two variants: Claude Opus 4, a high-capability model for complex tasks priced at $15/$75 per million tokens, and Claude Sonnet 4, optimized for efficient everyday use. The release emphasizes instruction following and extended work sessions up to 7 hours. Community discussions highlight concerns about token pricing, token accounting transparency, and calls for open-sourcing Claude 3.5 Sonnet weights to support local model development. The news also covers Claude Code GA, new Agent Capabilities API, and various livestreams and reports detailing these updates. There is notable debate around sliding window attention and advanced inference techniques for local deployment.