Anthropic just launched Claude 3.5 Haiku, but it comes with a surprise 4x price hike and no image analysis at launch. While the new model matches or beats its previous flagship Claude 3 Opus on key benchmarks, input tokens now cost four times more than before. Anthropic will keep Claude 3 Haiku around for cost-conscious users.
Anthropic just made Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet available in AWS GovCloud and the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community. The startup also modified its usage policies to permit authorized foreign intelligence analysis like detecting sabotage and early military warnings, while strictly keeping bans on weapons and cyberwarfare.
Anthropic just made tool use generally available across the entire Claude 3 model family via its API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Developers can now connect Claude to external APIs to extract structured data, automate multi-step workflows, and stream tool interactions. Why it matters: It gives Claude the hands and feet needed to act as a true agent, though parallel tool calls aren't supported yet.
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus just beat OpenAI’s GPT-4 on the crowdsourced Chatbot Arena leaderboard for the first time. Variations of GPT-4 have dominated the top spot since May 2023, but Claude 3 has finally broken that year-long reign alongside strong showings from its budget Haiku model. Why it matters: This marks the first time the best available LLM isn't from OpenAI.
Anthropic just released Claude 3 Haiku, its fastest and most affordable model to date. Built for enterprise workloads, it processes 21K tokens per second—roughly 30 pages—making it three times faster than peers while slashing document processing costs in half. Why it matters: developers can now analyze 400 legal cases or 2,500 images for just one dollar.
