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No, you're forgetting the never ending world shattering models being released every couple of months. Each one with 2X token costs of course, for a vague performance gain and that will deprecate the previous ones.
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https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-depre...

Retirement date for Opus 4.6 is marked as "Not sooner than February 5, 2027"

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It’s nice to see comments like this. It makes me feel less crazy. Something very weird is going on behind the scenes at Anthropic.
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