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AI Race Heats Up: Codex Challenger Emerges with Agent Teams & Faster Kernels

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Challenges OpenAI's Codex Amidst AI Industry Shakeup

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday, a significant upgrade to its flagship artificial intelligence model, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI's Codex, according to VentureBeat. The launch arrives amidst a volatile period for the AI industry and global software markets, with investors attributing a recent $285 billion rout in software and services stocks partly to fears that AI tools could disrupt established enterprise software businesses.

Claude Opus 4.6 boasts a 1 million token context window and "agent teams," enabling it to plan more carefully and sustain longer autonomous workflows, VentureBeat reported. Anthropic claims that its model outperforms competitors, including OpenAI's GPT-5.2, on key enterprise benchmarks. This release came just three days after OpenAI launched its Codex desktop application, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude Code momentum.

Meanwhile, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its coding model, accessible via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and a new macOS desktop app, according to Ars Technica. While API access is not yet available, it is expected to come soon. OpenAI's testing indicates that GPT-5.3-Codex outperforms GPT-5.2-Codex and GPT-5.2 in benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. Ars Technica cautioned against exaggerating the model's capabilities, noting that claims of Codex building itself are an overstatement. The domains OpenAI described using it for are similar to those seen in some other enterprise software development firms now: managing deployments, debugging.

In related AI advancements, researchers from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI developed a new technique called Test-Time Training to Discover (TTT-Discover) that optimizes GPU kernels, VentureBeat reported. This technique allows models to continue training during the inference process, updating its weights for the specific problem at hand. TTT-Discover has reportedly optimized a critical GPU kernel to run twice as fast as the previous state-of-the-art written by human experts.

The rapid development of AI capabilities is being closely tracked by the AI community. METR, an AI research nonprofit, updates a graph that suggests certain AI capabilities are developing at an exponential rate, according to MIT Technology Review. The graph has played a major role in the AI discourse since its first release in March of last year. Claude Opus 4.5, the previous version of Anthropic's most powerful model, outperformed that already impressive trend.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI solutions, often layering them onto existing infrastructure, according to MIT Technology Review. This has led to complex IT ecosystems that can be challenging to manage.

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