Monday 1 February · Anthropic
Anthropic releases a new Claude model with a larger context window
Affects Session 2. Nobody has acted on it yet.
What changed
A new Claude model takes about four times as much text in one go and is the default in the Claude app from today. The older models stay in the model picker.
Anthropic · Monday 1 February
Why it matters for the course
Session 2’s “Compare two models on one job” names the two models learners compare; one of them is no longer the default.
Session 4’s “Summarise a long report” says reports over about 60 pages need splitting. That limit has moved.
The session 2 intro video shows the old model picker for two minutes.
Where it touches
Recommendation
Name the new model as one of the two in “Compare two models on one job” and keep the older one as the other. Re-record the model picker clip. Raise the page limit in the session 4 summary task.