Claude Opus 4.6 launched with a million-token memory.
Anthropic's most powerful model introduces a context window large enough to hold an entire book — and it lives inside Excel now.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, introducing a 1-million-token context window in beta. The model was simultaneously deployed as an add-in inside Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
The cultural signal is in the deployment. AI is no longer something you visit in a separate tab. It is inside the spreadsheet you were already working in. The friction between 'using AI' and 'doing your job' is collapsing.
When the tool disappears into the workflow, adoption stops being a choice and becomes a default.
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SO WHAT?
Test embedding AI into one existing workflow this month — not as a separate step, but inside the tool your team already uses. Adoption is not about capability. It is about proximity.
Test embedding AI into one existing workflow this month — not as a separate step, but inside the tool your team already uses. Adoption is not about capability. It is about proximity.
Source: Anthropic