Claude Sonnet 5 Lands: Default in Claude Code, 1M Context
1Key Takeaways
- Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
- What changed this week On 30 June 2026, Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 and quietly made it the default across the Claude family — including inside Claude Code, the terminal-native agent that a large share of Indian and UK engineering teams now lean on for day-to-day work.
- The headline for builders is not a benchmark chart.
- It is three practical facts stacked together: Sonnet 5 is the new default, it carries a native 1M-token context window, and it is….
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