Claude Opus 4.6

Ingredient list

1. #1Constitutional AI

   Invented by Anthropic · 2022-12 · Velocity 3y

   “Anthropic's core alignment approach is Constitutional AI, used to train Claude models.”

   alignmenthigh
2. #2Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought

   Invented by University of Tokyo · 2022-05 · Velocity 4y

   “Claude Opus exhibits zero-shot reasoning when prompted with 'think step by step' instructions.”

   reasoninghigh
3. #3Chain-of-Thought Prompting

   Invented by Google · 2022-01 · Velocity 4y

   “Claude Opus demonstrates step-by-step reasoning in its responses, consistent with chain-of-thought prompting.”

   reasoninghigh
4. #4Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE)

   Invented by Zhuiyi Technology · 2021-04 · Velocity 5y

   “Anthropic's research mentions using rotary position embeddings (RoPE) in transformer architectures.”

   architecturemedium
5. #5Transformer Self-Attention

   Invented by Google · 2017-06 · Velocity 9y

   “Claude is based on transformer architecture with self-attention mechanisms.”

   architecturehigh