Anthropic has launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a new AI model that outperforms OpenAI’s recently released GPT-4o in most tests.
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers a 200K token context window and is cheaper than Claude 3 Opus, the top-end AI model from the previous generation. However, Claude 3.5 Sonnet operates at twice the speed of the older model and still outperforms it, according to internal evaluations.
Specifically, Claude 3.5 Sonnet sets new industry benchmarks for graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate-level knowledge (MMLU), and coding proficiency (HumanEval). It shows marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions, and excels at writing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone.
One of the biggest upgrades is its vision capabilities, or the ability to analyze and understand an image. Anthropic says Claude 3.5 Sonnet can accurately transcribe text even from imperfect images. This means it could potentially defeat traditional CAPTCHA.
Like GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available for free on Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, though paid subscribers can access it with much higher rate limits.
Artifacts
Claude 3.5 Sonnet was launched alongside a new feature called “Artifacts.” Currently in preview, this feature will let Claude run a code snippet or even display a website in a sidebar, as part of a dynamic workspace area. Within this dedicated area, users can see, edit, and build upon Claude’s creations in real time alongside their conversation.
There are three types of Artifacts: Text-based for writing tasks, visual Artifacts for projects that require visuals, and coding Artifacts for developers working with code snippets.
Michael Gerstenhaber, product lead at Anthropic shed some light on Artifacts in an interview with TechCrunch.
“Artifacts are the model output that puts generated content to the side and allows you, as a user, to iterate on that content. Let’s say you want to generate code — the artifact will be put in the UI, and then you can talk with Claude and iterate on the document to improve it so you can run the code,” Gerstenhaber said.
More modalities and a memory feature are coming to Artifacts soon. According to Anthropic, the preview marks Claude’s evolution from a conversational AI to a collaborative work environment to support team collaboration.
“In the near future, teams – and eventually entire organizations – will be able to securely centralize their knowledge, documents, and ongoing work in one shared space, with Claude serving as an on-demand teammate,” says Anthropic on its blog announcing Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Anthropic says both the lightweight Claude 3.5 Haiku and the massive Claude 3.5 Opus AI models will be released later this year to complete the Claude 3.5 model family. You can read the announcement here.
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