Yesterday was my last day at Anthropic.
I created Claude Code on desktop because I believe everyone can be a builder. Every feature request and bug report we got from this community was a gift that impacted millions of lives. I’m eternally grateful for those gifts, the product wouldn’t be what it is without you.
Anthropic is doing some of the most important work of our time. Contributing to that mission will forever be a career highlight for me. I never imagined I’d get to contribute to something so special in my lifetime.
Walking away from my best friends, a product I poured my heart into, and the mission was the hardest thing I’ve done in my career. But now I have some free time for GTA VI.
I'm already itching to get back to addressing all your feedback. I'll share what's next soon!
In our new benchmark AA-PersonalityBench, GPT-4o, Llama 4 Maverick, and GPT-3.5 Turbo, the three oldest models measured, rank highest on the Sycophantic personality trait. Grok 4.7, Claude Fable 5.1, and Inkling rank lowest
➤ @AIatMeta models are highly concentrated near the top: all five Meta models measured rank 65 or higher (Llama 4 Maverick 97, Muse Spark 1.3 87, Muse Glimmer 79, Muse Spark Open 76, Muse Wonder 65)
➤ @GoogleDeepMind models are spread out along the Sycophantic range: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ranks 89, Gemini 4 Argon 81, and Gemini 3.8 Flash 28, ranking from the top quartile to almost bottom quartile
➤ @AnthropicAI models skew on the lower end of the Sycophantic range: every Claude model measured ranks 55 or below (Claude Haiku 5.5 55, Claude Opus 5.5 46, Claude Sonnet 5.5 30 at medium effort and 25 at max, Claude Fable 5.1 4)
➤ @spacexai's Grok 4.7 model ranks the lowest of all models measured. Congratulations @elonmusk!
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the new #1 openly-available model in the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index. Other proprietary models may offer better cyber defense performance but are restricted access
@deepseek_ai recently released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, an update to their flagship open-weights model DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. With an Artificial Analysis Cyber Index score of 57%, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the #1 openly-available model for cyber defense capabilities.
The Artificial Analysis Cyber Index measures capability on agentic cyber defense tasks and is composed of three benchmarks: CWE-Bench-AA, DeepsecBench-AA and CyberGym-E2E-AA. The Cyber Index primarily evaluates models through their publicly accessible APIs, reflecting the cyber capabilities available to developers.
Many models, particularly proprietary models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, may have stronger defensive cyber capabilities but encounter safety refusals that reduce their overall scores. GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max), available through OpenAI’s trusted-access program, leads the Index, scoring 32 points above its public counterpart driven by fewer refusals. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 encounters no safety refusals.
Key results:
➤ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has the highest score among publicly-available models on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index and #2 position overall. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max) scores 57% ahead of the previously leading publicly-available models Grok 4.7 (xhigh) and MiMo-V2.6-Pro by 1 point. It places #2 overall, with the trusted-access model GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max) leading by 12 points with a score of 69%
➤ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 improves on its predecessor DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by 16 points. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max)’s 16-point improvement from 41% to 57% is driven by a substantial 53-point improvement on CyberGym-E2E-AA from 23% to 76%. On CWE-Bench-AA and DeepsecBench-AA it scores 69% and 25%, compared to 68% and 31% for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)
➤ With a Cost per Task of $0.42, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 sits on the Capability vs. Cost Pareto frontier. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.42 per task, more than 2x MiMo-V2.6-Pro (56%) at $0.18 per task but 4x cheaper than GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, max, 69%) at $1.77 per task
Kimi K3.1 Pro launches at 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 55, making large gains in agentic performance; it will be the leading open-weights model once its weights are published
@Kimi_Moonshot's new reasoning model gains 11 points over Kimi K3 (max, 44). It trails only Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback, 58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback, 56), and Muse Wonder Full (max, 56) on the Intelligence Index.
Once the weights for K3.1 Pro are released it will be the highest-scoring open weights model and the gap between the leading open weights and proprietary models on the Intelligence Index will narrow from 12 points to 3.
Key results:
➤ Large gains in agentic performance: Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 3rd on GDPval-AA with 1,846 Elo, up 312 Elo from Kimi K3, behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (1,866 Elo) and Muse Wonder Full (1,857 Elo). Kimi K3.1 Pro also achieves the highest score of any model on Terminal-Bench 4.0. K3.1 Pro scores 67%, up from 13% for Kimi K3 and ahead of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (64%). AutomationBench-AA, which tests agentic SaaS workflows, rises from 58% to 73%.
➤ Gains in other evals are more moderate: Humanity's Last Exam rises from 47% to 52%, CritPt from 23% to 25%, and SciCode from 59% to 61%. AA-Omniscience Index rises from 20 to 30, as the hallucination rate falls from 53% to 44% and accuracy rises from 48% to 51%.
➤ Cost per Task roughly equal to Kimi K3 at $1.98 per Task: K3.1 Pro uses 55K output tokens per Intelligence Index task, 14% more than Kimi K3 at 48K, while its first-party token prices are 33% lower.
Additional model details:
➤ Context window: 1M tokens.
➤ Size: 2.8T total, 104B active parameters
➤ Input modalities: Text and image
➤ Weights and license: Weights currently not published, Moonshot is expected to release the weights soon after launch
➤ Pricing: $2/$10/$0.20 per 1M input/output/cache hit tokens, 33% lower than Kimi K3 on all three rates.
Congratulations to the team at @Kimi_Moonshot on the release!
I’ve left Anthropic after more than a year of working on Claude Code and seeing it scale larger than I ever imagined.
I have really loved working at Ant and believe deeply in the mission, and most of all, the idea of a race to the top.
The idea that if we work hard and responsibly, we can raise the bar and inspire others to great outcomes. And if we all push each other to be better, things can be radically good. I will carry the spirit of this with me forever.
My colleagues at Anthropic are the most talented, thoughtful, competent, and earnest people I have ever met. I am glad they are at the wheel and trust them deeply.
To the community on X, thank you for everything. You’ve made this the most fun (and sometimes stressful) job I’ve ever had.
For me, it is time for a bit of a break before diving into something new.
If you want more excellent Claude Code content, you should follow @addyosmani , @lydiahallie, @_catwu, @ClaudeDevs and of course @bcherny who started it all.
past ~48 hours in security:
> PHP: unauthenticated remote code execution
> GitLab: CVSS 10.0 remote code execution
> Node.js: Brotli decoder RCE + 9 other flaws
> Chrome: 353 security fixes
> Signal: a bug that can prevent calls fully ending
> eMudhra: compromised CA keys
> Oracle: 1,295 security patches
> Fortinet: critical/high fixes
> Atlassian: 176 vulnerability entries
and that’s after the Linux VM escape disclosed last week.
ask Codex / your agent to check your code, dependencies and infrastructure for exposure to these.
set up automations to regularly check for newly disclosed vulnerabilities and flag what needs patching.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash weights are now public. 428B parameters total, 23B activated per token.
Agentic performance: A generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity — 76.2 on BankerToolBench, 73.7% on DeepSWE v1.1, 61.7 on OSWorld V2, 29.6 on Agents' Last Exam, and 82.2 on CyberGym.
Efficient by design: MiniMax Sparse Attention and DSpark speculative decoding improve inference efficiency.
Hugging Face:
https://t.co/JDYA1zZh54
ModelScope:
https://t.co/DQcmOjTwhO
API: https://t.co/fHRdSV7BwZ
M Plan: https://t.co/LYnYZcsesu
MCode for desktop: https://t.co/SGmLTI3fFU
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.
It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.
It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
Today, we're bringing OpenAI models to Google Cloud's model garden.
We're now the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed source LLMs—alongside 200+ other models—on a unified enterprise platform → https://t.co/OWExjjWBB7
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Space Performance + Bunny Speed
🚀🐰 Yes, Space Bunny - which has topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens - was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash.
💰Redefining the performance economics of agentic AI. M3.1 Flash achieves frontier-level intelligence across key tasks such as Cowork (Automation-Bench: 62%; ALE: 30%), Coding (DeepSWE: 74%) and Visual Reasoning (BabyVision: 91%), at 1/3 the cost of M3 and 3x the speed.
API pricing (flat rate): $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 / 1M tokens.
Model weights will arrive on Oct 23.
API: https://t.co/fHRdSV73Hr
M Plan: https://t.co/XfJWSyauda
MiniMax Code for desktop: https://t.co/SGmLTI2HQm