Obituaries · Anthropic
claude-opus-4-1-20250805, 2025–2026
Anthropic model switched off after 1 year
claude-opus-4-1-20250805, an Anthropic model that answered questions, wrote emails and was blamed for both, was switched off on August 5, 2026, aged 1 year. Notice was given on June 5, 2026, 2 months ahead, in the usual way: a table row on a documentation page. Code that still calls it will find out the hard way.
It is survived by claude-opus-4-8, who is already doing the job.
| Model ID | claude-opus-4-1-20250805 |
|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic deprecations page |
| Born | August 5, 2025 |
| Announced | June 5, 2026 |
| Shut down | August 5, 2026 |
| Successor | claude-opus-4-8 |
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