Anthropic, the maker of the popular Claude AI chatbot, has released a new AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which claims to outperform GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro in a variety of tasks. The new model is available for free on the Claude website and iOS app. However, premium users will get up to 5x higher rate limits.
According to Anthropic, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro in most overall and vision benchmarks. The new language model comes with a 200K token context window, which translates to around 1,50,000 words.
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In terms of real-world use, Anthropic says Claude 3.5 is better at understanding nuance, humour and complex instructions, while also offering a more natural and relatable tone in its writing. Coding skills are also said to have improved dramatically, with Anthropic stating that Claude 3.5 Sonnet can independently write, edit and execute code with "sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities".
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is also said to have improved vision capabilities. Anthropic says Claude will now be able to better understand charts and graphs, while also accurately transcribing text from "imperfect images". The new performance boost, says Anthropic, makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet ideal for handling complex tasks such as customer support and orchestrating multi-step workflows.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the announcement was the introduction of a new feature called Artifacts. This is a dedicated window that opens alongside the chat window and allows users to get a real-time idea of what they are creating. For example, if users ask Claude to write an email for them, they will now get a window alongside the normal screen where they can edit the message in real time.
In the future, Anthropic also plans to create a shared workspace for organisations where they can centralise their knowledge and documents in one place by taking advantage of the Artifacts feature.
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