Anthropic has introduced the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model

Anthropic has introduced the Claude 3.5 Sonnet, an AI model that "surpasses competitors and Claude 3 Opus in a wide range of tests."

Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet.

This is the first release in our 3.5 model family.

Sonnet now outperforms competitor models on key evaluations, at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus and one-fifth the cost.

Try it for free: https://t.co/uLbS2JMEK9 pic.twitter.com/qz569rES18

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) June 20, 2024

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first of the new Claude 3.5 family from Anthropic. According to the company, it is different:

high level of thinking, knowledge and programming skills;a marked improvement in the understanding of nuances, humor and complex constructions;by writing high-quality content in a natural tone;an accurate transcription of the text from low-quality images.Comparison of Claude 3.5 Sonnet with models from the Claude 3 family. Data: Anthropic.

"Claude 3.5 Sonnet runs twice as fast as Claude 3 Opus. This increase in productivity, combined with a cost-effective price, makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet the ideal solution for complex tasks such as context—sensitive customer support and multi-stage workflow organization," the company said in a blog post.

Comparison of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet with competitors GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Llama-400b. Data: Anthropic.

Anthropic also announced "Artifacts" — the technology allows you to ask a chatbot to generate a text document, code snippet or website design and open the result in a special window. 

Claude 3.5 Sonnet can be downloaded for free on the company's website or in the App Store on iPhone. Higher speed limits are available to Claude Pro and Team subscribers. 

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees. Her chatbot, along with ChatGPT from OpenAI and Gemini from Google, has gained great popularity. Over the past year, the startup has concluded five different deals to attract investments totaling $7.3 billion. 

In March, Amazon announced a new $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic. In total, the technology giant has invested $4 billion.

In the same month, the AI startup introduced the Claude 3 family of models. 

Recall that in January, the FTC launched an investigation against Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Alphabet regarding "investments and partnerships" in the field of generative artificial intelligence.