More powerful than GPT-4

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It’s been a busy few weeks in the AI world. Google dropped a suite of lightweight LLMs, Minstral (backed by Microsoft) dropped its own large AI modal, OpenAI announced Sora, and now Anthropic, the makers of Claude, are getting in on the party. 

The Amazon-backed startup just dropped Claude 3 — a suite of AI models that the company claims are its fastest and most powerful yet. 

Claude 3 comes in three flavors: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, with Opus being the largest, most expensive model and Haiku at the other end being the smallest and cheapest. Don’t knock Haiku yet, though (more on that later). 

Opus and Sonnet are available now to test out on claude.ai and through the company's API. Haiku, the smallest of the bunch, will arrive a little bit later, and all three can be deployed on applications like chatbots, auto-completion, and data-extraction tools.

How good is it?

Unlike the company’s earlier models, Claude 3 is multimodal, so it understands and interacts with text and photo user inputs, and it seems Claude 3 is outperforming GPT-4 across several benchmarks.

Take Claude Opus as an example. According to the company, it showed better graduate-level understanding than GPT-4, scoring 50.4 over GPT-4’s 35.7, and even the smallest of the bunch, Haiku, is showing some impressive results, with the company saying in a blog post that it can “read a dense research paper complete with charts and graphs in less than three seconds.”

What next? 

The big question is how OpenAI responds. For some time now, the company's flagship model, GPT-4, has been the standard to reach when it comes to AI models, but as time goes on, it's only natural that competitors start to swallow up more of that pie.

The company has been pretty tight-lipped about when GPT-5 is coming, but as more and more companies step up to offer an alternative, the spotlight shifts to the darling AI company to see what it has under its sleeve.

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