Milestone note Reached May 2025
Reasoning & agentic coding becomes the frontier (Claude Opus 4)
Anthropic (Claude Opus 4) — Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched with extended thinking and sustained autonomous coding over long tasks — part of a 2025 shift where reasoning/agentic models, not raw scale alone, drove the frontier.
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