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Claude 2.1

claude-2.1

2023-11-212025-07-21 · lived 1 year, 7 months

It doubled the window to two hundred thousand tokens, and within a fortnight someone had hidden a single sentence in the middle of one and published what came back. Anthropic replied with a post showing that adding one line — "Here is the most relevant sentence in the context:" — moved recall from 27% to 98%. The headline was the window; the durable lesson was about how you ask.

Provider
Anthropic
Cause of death
Superseded
Notice given
2025-01-21
Context
200,000 tokens
Succeeded by
Claude 3 Opus

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