Anthropic announced on August 15, 2025, that its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models have been equipped with a new capability to autonomously terminate conversations in rare and extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions. The company describes this as an experimental “model welfare” initiative – introduced not
On August 13, 2025, Anthropic unveiled Claude AI's two new educational styles: Explanatory and Learning modes, which completely transform how programming is taught and learned. The Explanatory mode enables Claude to explain its reasoning step-by-step, sharing architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and best practices while writing code. The Learning mode,
Anthropic introduced its specialised AI solution called the Financial Analysis Solution on July 15, 2025, revolutionising how financial professionals approach investment decision-making, market analysis, and research. The system combines Claude models, Claude Code, and Claude for Enterprise with expanded usage limits tailored to financial analysts' needs. The solution provides
In June 2025, Anthropic published the "Project Vend" experiment where Claude AI operated a virtual vending machine that, after initial success, quickly deteriorated. During the 31-day experiment, Claude, granted full decision-making autonomy, initially performed well, increasing revenue by 30% in the first week and achieving positive customer satisfaction
Anthropic introduced a custom set of AI models for US national security customers on June 5, 2025, which are already deployed by agencies at the highest level of security operations. The "Claude Gov" models were built based on direct government feedback to address real-world operational needs while undergoing
Anthropic introduced its new Claude 4 models on 22 May, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning and AI agents. Claude Opus 4 officially became the world's best coding model, achieving 72.5% on the SWE-bench benchmark and 43.2% on
On 9 April 2025, Anthropic announced its new premium subscription tier for its Claude AI assistant, named Max, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s $200 ChatGPT Pro service. The Max subscription is available in two pricing tiers: $100 per month for five times the usage limit of
Anthropic's research team published a study in April 2025 revealing alarming results about reasoning AI models: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 models failed to mention factors influencing their answers in their Chain-of-Thought reasoning 75% and 61% of the time respectively. Researchers embedded six different types of
On 2 April 2025, Anthropic officially announced Claude for Education, an AI assistant solution specifically designed for higher education institutions, focusing on fostering critical thinking rather than providing straightforward answers to students. Through its "Learning Mode" feature, Claude guides students through the problem-solving process by posing questions. The
DeepSeek AI released its latest 685 billion parameter DeepSeek-V3-0324 model on 24 March 2025, positioning it as an open-source alternative to compete with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet model. The new model demonstrates significant advancements in coding, mathematical tasks, and general problem-solving, while being freely available under an MIT
On 20 March 2025, Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence assistant, Claude, is now capable of internet browsing, significantly expanding the chatbot’s functionality and access to up-to-date information. With the new feature, Claude automatically searches for and processes relevant internet sources and then responds with direct links that allow
Anthropic unveiled the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model on 24th February 2025, the first hybrid reasoning model on the market with a novel thinking capability. This new feature allows the model to dedicate more time and computational resources to solving complex problems whilst making the thinking process visible to users.
