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Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry

As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and support consistency for production workflows. Claude Opus 4.8 is designed for these demands, with stronger performance across software development, agents, document-heavy analysis, and enterprise workflows.

Built for complex coding work

Claude Opus 4.8 is designed to support real-world software development tasks, from feature work and debugging to refactoring, migrations, and multi-stage coding projects.

The model can read and reason across codebases, plan before making edits, track dependencies across longer sessions, and continue working through complex tasks with less manual intervention. This makes it well suited for developer workflows where the model needs to understand context, make changes carefully, and maintain coherence over longer periods of work.

Stronger support for agentic workflows

Claude Opus 4.8 also brings improvements for agentic tasks. It is...

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