OpenAI competitor Anthropic has released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its most powerful AI model to date.
KEY FACTS
- Claude is one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has gained extreme popularity in the last year.
- Anthropic, which was founded by former heads of the OpenAI research team, has backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon.
- Over the past year, the company has closed five different financing deals totaling approximately $7.3 billion.”
- The news follows Anthropic’s debut of the Claude 3 family of models in March and OpenAI’s GPT-4o in May.
IMPORTANT QUOTE
“Claude 3.5 shows a marked improvement in understanding nuance, humor and complex instructions, and is exceptional at writing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone,” the company said. It can also write, edit, and execute code.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Anthropic also announced Artifacts, which allows the user to ask the Claude chatbot to generate, for example, a text document or code, and then opens the result in a separate window.
“This creates a dynamic workspace where users can see, edit and build on what Claude has created in real-time,” the company said, adding that it expects Artifacts to be useful for code development, drafting and analyzing legal contracts, writing business reports and more.
