anthropic unfolded its new ai language model on Thursday, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The updated chatbot outperforms the company's previous top-tier model, Claude 3 Opus, and works at twice the speed. Claude users (including those with free accounts) can check it out starting today.
Sonnet, which tends to be Anthropic's most balanced model, is the first release in the Claude 3.5 family. The company says the Claude 3.5 Haiku (the fastest of each generation) and Claude 3.5 Opus (the most powerful) will arrive later this year. (Those models will remain in version 3 in the meantime.) The Sonnet update comes just a few months after the arrival of the Claude 3 family, showing the breakneck speed at which ai companies are working to spit out the latest and greatest.
Anthropic claims that Claude 3.5 Sonnet marks a step forward in understanding nuance, humor, and complicated cues, and can write in a more natural tone. The benchmarks (above) show that the new model breaks industry records for graduate-level reasoning, undergraduate-level knowledge, and coding proficiency. It outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4o in many of the benchmarks published by Anthropic. However, the latest Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama models tend to score within a few percentage points of each other in most tests, underscoring the tight competition.
The company claims that the Claude 3.5 Sonnet also interprets visual information better than the Claude 3.0 Opus. Anthropic says the new model can “accurately transcribe text from imperfect images,” a skill it hopes will appeal to retail, logistics and financial services customers who need to assimilate data from charts, graphs and other visual cues.
Claude's update also brings a new workspace the company calls Artifacts (above). When you ask the chatbot to generate content such as code, text documents, or web designs, a dedicated window appears to the right of the chat. From there, you can ask Claude to make changes and he will keep the Artifacts window updated with his latest result.
The company sees Artifacts as a first step in making Claude a space for broader team collaboration. “In the near future, teams, and eventually entire organizations, will be able to securely centralize their knowledge, documents and work in progress in a shared space, with Claude as an on-demand teammate,” the company wrote in a press release. . .
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available for anyone with an account to try ai/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:its website;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>your websiteas well as in the Claude app for iOS. (On both platforms, Claude Pro and Team subscribers earn a higher number of tokens.) You can also access it via Anthropic API, amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex ai. It costs $3 per million tokens in and $15 per million tokens out, the same as the previous model.
