Anthropic's newest Claude AI models are experts at programming

Yesterday in an announcement blog post, AI company Anthropic unveiled Claude 4, its new generation of AI models consisting of Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet with a range of new abilities. Both Claude 4 models are hybrid models, which means they're capable of giving you short-and-quick answers or thinking longer on their responses with deeper reasoning. Claude 4 Opus is excellent at solving complex problems and at programming. The model can maintain its performance in long tasks over several hours with thousands of different steps. Meanwhile, Anthropic says Claude 4 Sonnet is a huge upgrade over Claude 3.7 Sonnet's abilities.