Just for anyone else who hadn't seen the announcement yet, this Anthropic 1M context is now the same price as the previous 256K context - not the beta where Anthropic charged extra for the 1M window:
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2032509548297343196
As for retrieval, the post shows Opus 4.6 at 78.3% needle retrieval success in 1M window (compared with 91.9% in 256K), and Sonnet 4.6 at 65.1% needle retrieval in 1M (compared with 90.6% in 256K).
Aren't these numbers really bad?
> 80% needle retrieval means every fifth memory is akin to a hallucination.
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now that's major news
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