InfoQ: “While Opus 4.6 introduces a 1M token context window in beta, which is enough to process approximately 750,000...
InfoQ: “While Opus 4.6 introduces a 1M token context window in beta, which is enough to process approximately 750,000 words, the more significant architectural update is context compaction. This feature addresses performance degradation as context windows fill, a phenomenon Anthropic calls 'context rot.' When a conversation approaches the limit, the API automatically summarizes earlier portions and replaces them with a compressed state.”