Anthropic’s new Claude 4.5 just launched, and Anthropic claims it's the company's most powerful AI model yet. With the ability to run for 30+ hours on autonomous coding tasks, Claude 4.5 promises to be a powerhouse model for everything from coding to nuanced reasoning. And while the benchmarks are impressive, sometimes the best way to test what a new model can do, is to give it a try yourself. The new Claude is free for all users, although subscribers get more tokens to use the model longer. So, let's see just how impressive this new model is with 7 prompts that show off what Claude 4.5 can (and can’t) do right now.
1. Build a mini app
Prompt: “Write a simple budgeting app in Python that lets me input expenses, categories, and shows a weekly summary.” In less than two minutes, Claude 4.5