Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Advancing AI Capabilities

Anthropic
has
announced
the
release
of
Claude
3.5
Sonnet,
the
first
model
in
its
new
Claude
3.5
model
family.
According
to

Anthropic,
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
significantly
outperforms
both
competitor
models
and
its
predecessor,
Claude
3
Opus,
in
various
evaluations
while
maintaining
the
speed
and
cost
of
its
mid-tier
model,
Claude
3
Sonnet.

Enhanced
Performance
and
Accessibility

Claude
3.5
Sonnet
is
now
available
on
Claude.ai
and
the
Claude
iOS
app
for
free,
with
higher
rate
limits
for
Claude
Pro
and
Team
plan
subscribers.
The
model
is
also
accessible
via
the
Anthropic
API,
Amazon
Bedrock,
and
Google
Cloud’s
Vertex
AI.
It
costs
$3
per
million
input
tokens
and
$15
per
million
output
tokens,
featuring
a
200K
token
context
window.

Frontier
Intelligence
at
Double
Speed

Claude
3.5
Sonnet
sets
new
standards
for
graduate-level
reasoning,
undergraduate-level
knowledge,
and
coding
proficiency.
It
excels
in
understanding
nuance,
humor,
and
complex
instructions,
and
it
is
particularly
adept
at
producing
high-quality
content
with
a
natural
tone.
Operating
at
twice
the
speed
of
Claude
3
Opus,
it
is
well-suited
for
tasks
such
as
context-sensitive
customer
support
and
orchestrating
multi-step
workflows.

In
an
internal
agentic
coding
evaluation,
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
solved
64%
of
problems,
compared
to
Claude
3
Opus’s
38%.
This
evaluation
tests
the
model’s
ability
to
fix
bugs
or
add
functionality
to
an
open-source
codebase
based
on
natural
language
descriptions.
Equipped
with
relevant
tools,
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
can
independently
write,
edit,
and
execute
code,
making
it
effective
for
updating
legacy
applications
and
migrating
codebases.

State-of-the-Art
Vision

Claude
3.5
Sonnet
surpasses
Claude
3
Opus
in
standard
vision
benchmarks,
excelling
in
tasks
requiring
visual
reasoning
such
as
interpreting
charts
and
graphs.
It
can
also
accurately
transcribe
text
from
imperfect
images,
a
crucial
capability
for
industries
like
retail,
logistics,
and
financial
services.

Introducing
Artifacts

Anthropic
also
introduced
a
new
feature
called
Artifacts
on
Claude.ai,
allowing
users
to
generate
and
interact
with
content
like
code
snippets
and
text
documents
in
a
dedicated
window.
This
feature
transforms
Claude
from
a
conversational
AI
into
a
collaborative
work
environment,
with
future
updates
aimed
at
supporting
team
collaboration.

Commitment
to
Safety
and
Privacy

Claude
3.5
Sonnet
has
undergone
rigorous
testing
to
mitigate
misuse
and
remains
at
ASL-2
according
to
red
teaming
assessments.
The
model
has
been
evaluated
by
external
experts,
including
the
UK’s
Artificial
Intelligence
Safety
Institute
(UK
AISI)
and
the
US
AI
Safety
Institute
(US
AISI),
ensuring
robust
safety
mechanisms
are
in
place.
Anthropic
has
integrated
feedback
from
child
safety
experts
at
Thorn
to
update
its
classifiers
and
fine-tune
the
models.

Privacy
remains
a
core
principle,
with
no
user-submitted
data
used
for
training
unless
explicitly
permitted
by
the
user.

Future
Developments

Anthropic
plans
to
release
additional
models
in
the
Claude
3.5
family,
including
Claude
3.5
Haiku
and
Claude
3.5
Opus,
later
this
year.
The
company
is
also
developing
new
features
to
support
more
business
use
cases,
such
as
enterprise
application
integrations
and
personalized
user
experiences.

Users
are
encouraged
to
provide
feedback
on
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
to
help
inform
future
developments
and
improvements.

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source:
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