AI 101: Anthropic Launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Outperforming GPT-4o
How competition in the AI industry is leading to better LLMs
Welcome to another edition of AI 101, where every Wednesday we bring you the biggest AI update of the week.
This Week’s Update: Anthropic Launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet
On June 20th, an AI company called Anthropic announced the launch of a new AI chatbot called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Claude 3.5 Sonnet not only outperforms the company's previous Claude 3 models on benchmark scores of performance but also other top competitors such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o which was released earlier this year. These benchmarks measure knowledge, visual reasoning, math, coding, and problem-solving skills. Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s ability to grasp nuance and humor in human language and follow complex instructions has also improved. The new model will operate at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus, Anthropic's previous top-performing model. Similar to GPT-4o, the model will be available for free and can be found on Claude.ai.
Why This Is Important
The performance of Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet represents a larger pattern of rapid evolution in the highly competitive AI space. Companies now release several AI models annually, continuously raising the bar for competitors. In fact, Anthropic has already announced it will introduce two more Claude 3.5 models, Haiku and Opus, later this year. The release also challenges OpenAI's dominance in the LLM marketplace. The most advanced OpenAI model, GPT-4o, was the best-performing model for only a month. The relentless growth of the industry raises the question of when we might begin to see the performance of the technology plateau.
Would you say the growth speed of these LLMs has been within expectations or have they exceeded what experts believed would happen?
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