alt Hacker NewsFunny enough, Anthropic just went GA with 1m context claude that has supposedly solved the lost-in-the-middle problem.
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BloondAndDoom • yesterday at 8:00 PM
In addition to context rot, cost matters, I think lots of people use toke compression tools for that not because of context rot
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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).