AI company Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) is expanding its recent software launches, debuting its Opus 4.6 model on Thursday, calling it the company’s “most capable model for all enterprise and knowledge work.”
The announcement comes just days after Anthropic unveiled a series of enterprise-focused plugins for the company’s Claude Cowork, designed for a variety of tasks ranging from productivity to legal, sales and marketing work.
That news sent shares of already vulnerable software companies plunging further south after major losses in 2025, amid fears that AI platforms like Claude Cowork will replace the software-as-a-service offerings of the likes of Salesforce (CRM) and SAP (SAP) in the coming years.
Anthropic’s release also comes just hours after OpenAI announced its new Frontier platform, which the company says is designed to allow customers to deploy AI agents that will interact with their existing software systems and perform tasks for and with employees.
Salesforce shares are down 25% since the beginning of the year, while SAP shares are down 18%. The stock prices of Intuit (INTU) and Thomson Reuters (TRI) have plummeted 32% and 30% respectively over the same period.
Anthropic has made enterprise work and coding two of its key business drivers, helping it to better differentiate itself from key rival OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), with Cowork and its plugins pushing the AI company into closer competition with software companies.
Opus 4.6, the company said, “is a groundbreaking model that raises the bar for knowledge work, with the ability to take on very complex tasks.”
Based on the company’s benchmarks, Opus 4.6 tops a number of key benchmarks, beating OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 and Google’s Gemini 3 Pro.
According to a release, Opus 4.6 may deliver results closer to “production-ready quality” on the first try, which Anthropic says will mean fewer back-and-forth iterative changes to things like documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
For AI agents, Anthropic claims that Opus 4.6 can work with dozens of tools as part of a single task and address errors. It can also analyze financial data, including regulatory filings, market reports and internal data.
On the coding side, Opus 4.6 can reportedly complete development projects in hours that would normally take days.
Claude is also coming to Microsoft’s PowerPoint as part of a research preview for Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, allowing users to create presentations using prompts. Anthropic already integrates with Microsoft apps such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook and Teams.
