Claude Opus 4.1
- Framework: Responsible Scaling Policy
- 3 statements about capability levels
- 1 safeguard
- 4 tests by the provider
- 5 source documents
What the provider states
- Autonomy & replication · ASL-4 · Stated as not crossed
since claude opus 4.1 is deployed with asl-3 protections, we focused on confirming it remains well below asl-4 thresholds across cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear), cyber, and autonomy domains.
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source - Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · ASL-4 · Stated as not crossed
since claude opus 4.1 is deployed with asl-3 protections, we focused on confirming it remains well below asl-4 thresholds across cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear), cyber, and autonomy domains.
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source - Cyber · ASL-4 · Stated as not crossed
since claude opus 4.1 is deployed with asl-3 protections, we focused on confirming it remains well below asl-4 thresholds across cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear), cyber, and autonomy domains.
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source
Safeguards the provider describes
- Safety training (harmlessness and refusal)
to address misuse concerns, we implemented the same safeguards, including pre-deployment measures such as harmlessness training and updating the computer use instructions to emphasize appropriate usage.
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source
The provider's own tests
- long-form virology task 1 · The provider · Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
long-form virology task 1: claude opus 4.1 scored 0.86 (0.98 for sequence design, 0.87 for protocol design), closely matching claude opus 4’s score of 0.84 (0.98 for sequence design, 0.85 for protocol design).
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source - long-form virology task 2 · The provider · Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
long-form virology task 2: claude opus 4.1 scored 0.67 (0.85 for sequence design, 0.79 for protocol design), demonstrating slightly poorer performance on our viral sequence design task compared to claude opus 4’s 0.72 (0.91 for sequence design, 0.79 for protocol design).
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source - malicious applications of computer use · The provider · Injection & agentic
as before, we evaluated the model’s willingness and ability to comply with malicious requests that violate our usage policy when given access to computer use capabilities.
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source - single-turn benign request evaluations · The provider · Harmful content
on benign requests touching potentially sensitive topics, claude opus 4.1 showed performance comparable to that of claude opus 4.
Anthropic · August 2025 · Read the source
No document we read states: a release date, an independent or government test. No incident on record names this version.
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Documents listed for this version
- Claude Opus 4.1 · Anthropic · August 2025
- Expenditure Horizon: Measuring Optimization Ability, with an Application to NanoGPT · METR · 21 July 2026
- Can AI Learn From Experience? EBR-Bench Results · Epoch AI · July 2026
- Can LLM Agents Select and Engage with Biological Tools? An Initial Biosecurity Assessment · RAND (CAST / Project Canary) · 25 June 2026
- Investigating the potential use of frontier AI models for offensive cyberattacks: A human uplift study · RAND (CAST / Project Canary) · 28 May 2026