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Editors' picks · featured
Where most teams start
Coding
Anthropic's new flagship: 80.3% SWE-bench Pro, 96% SWE-bench Verified on Vals.ai, and 85.0% OSWorld-Verified make it the best production coding pick for non-trivial engineering tasks.
Agents
Anthropic's new default agent: 85.2% SWE-bench Verified, 81.2% OSWorld-Verified, 86.6% BrowseComp multi-agent, and 1M context at the same durable $3/$15 as Sonnet 4.6 ($2/$10 intro through 2026-08-31).
Writing
Tops Chatbot Arena (1503) and writes paragraphs you'd ship; understands tone notes and edits like a copy chief.
Research
GDPval-AA ELO 1932 and Anthropic-reported finance, trading, and analytics wins make it the strongest general knowledge-work pick; do not use Mythos-only HLE rows as Fable evidence.
Image
The current photoreal leader — brand-consistent, with the best text rendering and hands in the open ecosystem.
Video
Best overall video quality in the catalog: 30-second clips, native audio, and up to 4K through Vertex AI.
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What changed in the model market
Inkling · GLM-4-Flash-250414 · GLM-4.1V-Thinking-FlashX
Verified provider price reductions
1351 scores tracked across major suites
top-lab output · $/1M
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