Anthropic Releases Claude 4 with Native Multimodal Reasoning
Written by
Pijush Saha
Claude 4 can now see, hear, and reason across images, audio, and documents in a single context window, a major step toward genuinely useful AI assistants.
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Key capabilities in Claude 4:
Native multimodal input - paste a screenshot, drop in an audio file, or upload a spreadsheet and Claude reasons across all of them at once.
Extended 500K token context - roughly the length of three full novels, enabling entire codebase reviews or complete research paper analysis in one shot.
Improved coding performance - Claude 4 scores 92.3% on SWE-Bench, outpacing GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on real-world software engineering tasks.
Faster output - median first-token latency drops by 40% compared to Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described the release as "the model we've wanted to build since day one."
API pricing starts at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens for Sonnet.