Anthropic has introduced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, claiming it surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in key performance metrics.
According to Anthropic, Claude 3.5 offers significant advancements in reasoning, coding, and mathematical tasks, outperforming its predecessor and competitors. The new model is described as faster and more cost-effective, operating at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus and at one-fifth the cost.
In benchmark tests, Claude 3.5 excelled against OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 1.5, though such benchmarks are often scrutinized for their lack of standardization. Despite this, Anthropic emphasizes improvements in the model’s ability to understand nuance, humor, and complex instructions, making it ideal for tasks such as translating and updating legacy code.
A notable feature is “Claude 3.5 Sonnet for vision,” enabling the AI to process visual data from charts and images. Additionally, the new “Artifacts” feature provides a side-by-side window for real-time content creation and editing, enhancing Claude’s utility as a collaborative tool.
Claude 3.5 is available for free on claude.ai and the Claude iOS app. Subscribers to Claude Pro and Team plans will benefit from higher usage limits. Anthropic also plans to update its other models, Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Opus, with the new technology later this year.
