Hey there! This is Ankur, and as promised, I’m being more regular with the AI newsletter now — 5 mins of reading every day, to help you stay ahead of the AI curve.

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Okay, today I’m going to talk about Claude Opus 4.6. If you don’t know what it is, just stay with me for the next 5 minutes, and you’ll know everything you need to know.

Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest model from Anthropic, which is said to be excellent for things like logical reasoning, coding and complex tasks. The internet is saying that it’s a huge development over existing models, and not just Claude’s earlier models, but ChatGPT, Perplexity and others too.

Like I said, it is way more efficient at handling complex tasks like coding, deep analysis of long documents, or tasks that require a lot more context/memory.

It has a token window of 1M tokens — almost as big as a whole book.

(Token window (aka context window) is the maximum amount of text an AI can "remember" and process at once, measured in tokens. It's like short-term memory—holds your prompt + chat history + its own thinking)

Okay, Opus 4.6 is not free. It’s actually quite expensive. Which is why, Claude Opus should primarily be used for complex tasks like:

Because ChatGPT (or other LLMs) don’t go into so much depth.

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At the same time, please don’t use it for “Write me a LinkedIn post on XYZ” tasks. It’ll just be too expensive to use Claude Opus for this. It’s like hiring a 50 year old finance veteran to do bookkeeping. Or hiring an engineer with 20 years of experience to write a “hello world” program.

You get the point. Use it only for complex tasks. For everything else, there’s ChatGPT.

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All AI models have their own speciality. While ChatGPT is more creative, Perplexity is more accurate, and Claude is more stable, the Opus 4.6 model is more deep when it comes to research.

I had written about the different models in the last edition of the newsletter. You can check it out here.

Here’s a brief comparison:

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Ankur