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Anthropic announced a new version of its most potent AI model intended to conduct financial research.

The company introduced Claude Opus 4.6, which it claims can examine market data, company data, and regulatory filings to produce in-depth financial analyses that would typically take a person days to finish.

Additionally, Opus 4.6 is designed to be more proficient in several other work-related tasks, such as software development and creating spreadsheets and presentations. After the announcement, the stock of financial services firms fell, with FactSet Research Systems Inc. dropping as much as 10%, and the Nasdaq, Moody’s Corp, and SandP Global all saw significant declines.

Anthropic and competitor OpenAI have devoted a significant portion of the last year to creating artificial intelligence tools to expedite a broader range of professional tasks, from financial services to health care. OpenAI is in fundraising talks at a valuation of up to $830 billion, while Anthropic is currently negotiating a new round of funding at a $350 billion valuation.

Additionally, OpenAI released an update on Thursday for Codex, its AI coding agent, which can create complex games and applications and is designed to simplify the process of writing and debugging code.

The creator of ChatGPT emphasized that the product’s capabilities go beyond writing software to include a variety of other related documentation and presentation tasks, like assisting with slide decks and user data analysis. For its part, Anthropic has over 300,000 business clients who use its models to make their jobs easier.