Anthropic expands Claude's context window from 9K to 100K

Claude's context window expanded from 9K to 100K

Why it matters

The starting gun for the long-context race; made feeding in whole documents without RAG a real option

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/100k-context-windows

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