• Anthropic has released its latest AI model – Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
• The company says it performs on par with, if not better than, what OpenAI and Google have made publicly available.
• 3.5 Sonnet is already available to Claud users on the web on iOS.

The trend of a new generative AI model being released by a startup every couple of weeks continues, and this time around it is the turn of Anthropic which has revealed Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

As with each new model that is released, regardless of which company is doing so, Anthropic is claiming that this is one of its best yet. More specifically it notes that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is on par, if not better than, what OpenAI and Google have released publicly with their respective ChatGPT and Gemini models.

“Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available for free on Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, while Claude Pro and Team plan subscribers can access it with significantly higher rate limits. It is also available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. The model costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with a 200K token context window,” the company shared in a blog post.

“Claude 3.5 Sonnet operates at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus. This performance boost, combined with cost-effective pricing, makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multi-step workflows,” it added.

For those unfamiliar with the company’s different tiers of AI model, there are three – Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Ranging from smallest to largest in terms of functionality and capability, 3.5 Sonnet is said to be twice as powerful as the previous generation Claude 3 Opus.

This translates to 3.5 Sonnet solving 64 percent of coding evaluation problems compared to Claude 3 Opus at 38 percent.

“When instructed and provided with the relevant tools, Claude 3.5 Sonnet can independently write, edit, and execute code with sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities. It handles code translations with ease, making it particularly effective for updating legacy applications and migrating codebases,” the company adds.

As with the previous Claude model that the company released only a few months ago, Anthropic has noted that 3.5 Sonnet is also a little more human in terms of the responses it generates. Here it said that, “It shows marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions, and is exceptional at writing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone.”

Whether those are ultimately the elements that end users will be using to determine picking one AI model over another remains to be seen, but it’s clear human-like conversational interactions is a key element of the experience that Anthropic is going for on its generative AI platform.