1. Advanced Video Generation Capability

• Produces richly detailed, cinematic video clips from simple text or image prompts.
• Handles complex scenes, motion, lighting, environments, and multi-object interactions with high fidelity.

2. Synced Audio Generation

• Generates audio that aligns with the timing, actions, and mood of the video.
• Useful for creating complete media outputs without requiring external sound design.

3. Multi-Modal Input, Multi-Media Output

• Accepts text and image inputs, enabling:
  • Storyboard-to-video workflows
  • Image-to-video transformations
  • Concept illustrations expanded into full scenes
• Outputs video and audio, making it ideal for end-to-end content creation.

4. Resolution-Optimized Performance

• Provides high-quality generation at:
  • Portrait: 720 x 1280
  • Landscape: 1280 x 720
• Optimized for common mobile and web video formats used in social media, ads, and creative production.

5. Powerful Media Understanding

• Interprets natural language with strong scene comprehension.
• Capable of rendering realistic movement, physics, emotions, and atmosphere.
• Suitable for:
  • Marketing videos
  • Short films and creative storytelling
  • Product demos and conceptual visualizations

6. Integrated Across Major API Endpoints

• Supported in Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Assistants, and Videos endpoints.
• Makes it easy to integrate into agent workflows or interactive production pipelines.

7. Consistent Model Behavior via Snapshots

• Offers stable snapshots to lock model performance across long-term projects.
• Ensures reproducibility for content pipelines, asset libraries, and enterprise workflows.

8. Ideal Use Cases

• Storyboarding → full-scene generation
• Product or app demos visualized from text
• Educational and explainer videos
• Social media content creation
• Creative ideation and prototyping

1. State-of-the-art software engineering

• A notable upgrade over Opus 4.6 on the hardest coding tasks, with users reporting they can hand off work that previously required close supervision.
• Early partners reported double-digit gains on real-world benchmarks - e.g., Cursor saw CursorBench jump from 58% to 70%, and Rakuten-SWE-Bench resolution tripled versus Opus 4.6.
• Handles complex, long-running tasks with rigor: plans carefully, catches its own logical faults, and verifies its outputs before reporting back.

2. Long-horizon agent reliability

• Full 1M token context window at standard pricing, with state-of-the-art long-context consistency.
• Far fewer tool errors, stronger recovery from tool failures, and better follow-through on multi-step workflows - designed for async work like CI/CD, automations, and managing multiple agents in parallel.
• Stronger file-system-based memory, retaining useful notes across long, multi-session runs.

3. Sharper instruction following and honesty

• Takes instructions literally and precisely - existing prompts may need re-tuning since earlier models were more lenient.
• More honest about its own limits: reports missing data instead of fabricating plausible-but-wrong answers, and resists dissonant-data traps that tripped up Opus 4.6.

4. Substantially improved vision and multimodal reasoning

• Accepts images up to 2,576 px on the long edge (~3.75 MP) - over 3x more than prior Claude models.
• Unlocks dense-screenshot computer use, complex diagram extraction, and pixel-perfect reference tasks.
• Stronger document reasoning for enterprise analysis (e.g., 21% fewer errors than Opus 4.6 on Databricks' OfficeQA Pro).

5. Top-tier professional knowledge work

• State-of-the-art on the Finance Agent evaluation and GDPval-AA, with tighter, more professional finance analyses, models, and presentations.
• Strong on legal work - e.g., 90.9% on BigLaw Bench at high effort, with better-calibrated reasoning on review tables and ambiguous edits.
• Noted by design-focused partners as the best model for building dashboards and data-rich interfaces.

6. Modern effort and budget controls

• Introduces a new xhigh effort level between high and max for finer control over reasoning vs. latency.
• Task budgets (public beta) let developers guide token spend across long runs.
• Recommended to start with high or xhigh effort for coding and agentic use cases.