The Era of Millions of Tokens Has Begun! Claude Tears Down the AI Programming Ceiling Overnight: Can It Swallow a Code Repository and Harry Potter All at Once?

In the AI programming arms race, Anthropic has just launched a "nuclear weapon" that could rewrite the battlefield.

Today, Claude officially announced the full release of its 1 million Token context window. This is not just a number, but means AI now truly has "super long-term memory". What is 1 million Tokens? It's equivalent to reading 7.5 million English words at once, or reading the entire Harry Potter series seven times.

For developers, this is like a dream come true "magic tool". Previously, when dealing with large codebases, you had to manually split files and make lossy summaries, afraid that the AI would "forget everything". Now, you can feed the entire project, thousands of pages of contracts, or even an entire design system screenshot directly to Claude.

Even more impressive is Anthropic's move in pricing, which is a "downward strike". Unlike some competitors who charge a premium for over 200,000 Tokens, Claude Opus4.6 and Sonnet4.6 offer a flat price for the full window, making long context no longer a luxury.

When it comes to the detailed retrieval test of "finding a needle in a haystack", Opus4.6 achieved an impressive score of 78.3%, firmly ranking first among similar models. It not only reads a lot but also remembers accurately, capable of precisely linking key logic within massive information.

With Claude Code's annual revenue skyrocketing, even OpenAI's president Greg Brockman couldn't help but comment that this freedom of not having to write code by hand relieves the burden on the brain. When AI's memory no longer has a ceiling, the role of programmers is being redefined - from hardworking "coders" to "CEOs" commanding fleets of AI intelligences.

This war over "working memory" has clearly placed Anthropic in a high position. Who will be the next to be disrupted?