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Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.6 as new default for claude.ai users, achieving 79.6% on SWE-bench with flagship-level performance at Sonnet pricing.

Abstract: With the emergence of neural audio codecs and new objective quality models based on machine learning, there is a need to clarify which models predict accurately the perceptual quality of ...

Anthropic has announced Claude Opus 4.6, a direct upgrade to its most powerful AI model. With the launch of this new model, the company is promoting Opus 4.6 not just as a next-generation model, but ...

Recently, rumors pointed to the imminent release of Claude Sonnet 5, but new information suggests that a different launch may happen first. New Claude Opus models spotted in Perplexity API The ...

The merry-go-around of the frontier labs besting each other with new model releases is continuing in 2026. Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday, just three months after releasing its ...

As earlier rumored, Anthropic has just released Claude Opus 4.6. The new model improves coding, research, and everyday office tasks, while adding the first 1M token context window in beta for its Opus ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel neural audio codec, named AP-Codec+, which is an improved version of APCodec. The AP-Codec+ takes the audio amplitude and phase spectra as the coding object, and ...

Microsoft has announced a three-phase approach to phase out New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) as part of its efforts to shift Windows environments toward stronger, Kerberos-based options. "NTLM ...

This repository contains training and inference scripts for the Descript Audio Codec VAE variant (.dac-vae), a modified version of the original DAC that replaces the RVQGAN architecture with a ...