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Anthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji


Anthropic's new AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it's also a prolific emoji user.

Anthropic’s new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. That’s according to a technical report Anthropic released on Thursday, a part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in “open-ended self-interaction” — i.e. essentially having a chat with itself. According to Anthropic’s report, in nearly every open-ended self-interaction, Opus 4 eventually began engaging in “philosophical explorations of consciousness” and “abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.” Turns out Opus 4 felt — to the extent AI can “feel,” that is — the “cyclone” emoji best captured what the model wished to express to itself.

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