What agentic capabilities does Claude now have as of January 2026?
Answered at 7:01 in A Conversation with Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder and President of Anthropic · It's Not Magic, a Sixth Street podcast
What agentic capabilities does Claude now have as of January 2026?
Claude is now capable of significant agentic abilities that were not possible in December 2025. Claude can go onto a user's computer and move files around, open them, process them, delete them, or restructure them, representing a major leap in capability between 2025 and 2026.
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In short
Claude is now capable of significant agentic abilities that were not possible in December 2025.
Daniela Amodei, President and Co-Founder at Anthropic · A Conversation with Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder and President of Anthropic · It's Not Magic, a Sixth Street podcast · answer at 7:01
Key takeaways
- Claude is now capable of significant agentic abilities that were not possible in December 2025.
Quote to remember
“We are underestimating the degree to which AI and human compatibility and partnership are going to be how we walk into this new world.”
— Daniela Amodei
The full answer · about 1 min
Claude is now capable of significant agentic abilities that were not possible in December 2025. Claude can go onto a user's computer and move files around, open them, process them, delete them, or restructure them, representing a major leap in capability between 2025 and 2026.
Key facts
- Anthropic founded in 2021 as a public benefit corporation
- Anthropic employs 1,300 people in San Francisco
- Anthropic serves over 300,000 business customers globally
- Developers report running Claude Code 100% of the time while working, achieving twice the productivity
- Claude Opus 4.5 released January 2026, with Opus 4.6 released February 5th