Anthropic just rolled out its Claude 3.5 Haiku model to Claude web and mobile users. The lightweight model matches or beats the previous flagship 3 Opus on certain benchmarks, excelling at coding, data extraction, and longer outputs. The only real trade-off is the lack of image analysis.
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 published the full system prompts powering Claude 3 and 3.5 across web and mobile apps. The prompts detail strict rules, from pretending to be totally face-blind to avoiding words like "certainly" when starting answers. It marks the first time a major AI lab has openly shared the baseline instructions shaping its models' personalities.
Anthropic just rolled out prompt caching on the Anthropic API for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and other models. By storing frequently used context between calls, developers can slash input costs by up to 90% and cut latency by up to 85% on long prompts. It is a massive win for coding assistants, deep agent loops, and chatting with whole books.
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 introduced the Claude 3 family, rolling out Haiku, Sonnet, and its flagship Opus model. Opus outperforms rival models across major reasoning and coding benchmarks, offering multimodal vision capabilities and a 200K context window. It sets a new bar for frontier models, with Opus and Sonnet live now and Haiku coming soon.
