Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, positioning the model for complex financial research tasks including regulatory filing analysis and market data processing. The release includes a 1 million token context window and what Anthropic calls improved autonomous reasoning capabilities.
The company claims over 300,000 business users, though it hasn't disclosed revenue figures or enterprise contract details. All seven co-founders remain at Anthropic more than three years after founding, an unusual retention pattern in AI startups where talent mobility is typically high.
According to Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic is scaling both training infrastructure and inference capacity simultaneously to support enterprise growth. The company has been emphasizing what it calls "mission-driven culture" as a differentiator, though whether this translates to sustained competitive advantage at scale remains unproven.
The real question for enterprise buyers: does mission alignment actually reduce organizational friction, or is Anthropic benefiting from being smaller and younger than competitors? The company's enterprise positioning addresses legitimate pain points around AI enablement and change management, but similar cultural claims have been made by other AI startups.
Three things to watch: how Anthropic's organizational efficiency holds up as it scales, whether the 300K user figure includes meaningful enterprise deployments versus trials, and how the model performs on financial analysis tasks compared to GPT-5.2 and Gemini Ultra in production environments.
The model is available now through Anthropic's API and enterprise plans. Pricing details weren't disclosed in the announcement.