Claude Sonnet 4.5: Anthropic Delivers Persistent Autonomous Agent Workflows for Enterprises

This IDC Perspective discusses Anthropic's release of Claude Sonnet 4.5 that marks a major advancement in agentic AI workflows for enterprises, with enhanced coding, reasoning, and memory management capabilities. The model's improvements in cybersecurity, benchmark performance, and developer tools position Anthropic as a formidable competitor in the enterprise AI market, driving rapid adoption and challenging rivals like OpenAI. These advancements underscore the growing importance of tackling long-running agentic workflows and model alignment for enterprise buyers in a hypercompetitive landscape."In the race for enterprise AI dominance, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 redefines the horizon for long-running autonomous agentic workflows," said Tim Law, research director, AI and Automation, IDC." Enterprises need to prepare for the next frontier - more complex, sophisticated, long-running agentic workflows - and their ability to manage, govern, and control costs of autonomous agent workflows."