Claude 3.5 Sonnet: New Features, Improvements, Availability & Future Plans

Anthropic, a leading AI research company, has announced the release of its latest large language model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

This new model sets new industry benchmarks, outperforming even Anthropic’s previous top-tier offering, Claude 3 Opus, in a range of evaluations.

Enhanced Capabilities

Claude 3.5 Sonnet demonstrates significant improvements in several key areas:

• Visual Reasoning: The model surpasses Claude 3 Opus on standard vision benchmarks, particularly in tasks that require interpreting charts, graphs, and transcribing text from imperfect images.
• Language Understanding: Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions, producing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone.
• Coding Proficiency: In internal evaluations, Claude 3.5 Sonnet solved 64% of coding problems, outperforming Claude 3 Opus which solved 38%. The model can independently write, edit, and execute code with sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities.

Improved Speed and Accessibility

In addition to its enhanced capabilities, Claude 3.5 Sonnet operates at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus, making it ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and multi-step workflows.

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

Introducing Artifacts

Anthropic has also introduced a new feature called Artifacts on Claude.ai, which allows users to generate and interact with content like code snippets, text documents, and website designs in a dedicated workspace alongside their conversation with Claude.

This feature transforms Claude from a conversational AI into a collaborative work environment, with plans to expand it to support team collaboration in the future.

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.

Overall, the release of Claude 3.5 Sonnet represents a significant advancement in Anthropic’s AI capabilities, setting new benchmarks for intelligence, speed, and cost-effectiveness, while also introducing new ways for users to interact and collaborate with the model.