Anthropic raises the industry bar for intelligence

Conrad Gray
5 min readJun 21, 2024

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it looks very interesting. It is faster and smarter than Anthropic’s previous flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, and makes a solid attempt for the top spot in the leaderboards.

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Anthropic has released a new model in their Claude family of models, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which is also the first Claude 3.5 model released to the public. According to Anthropic, its newest model raises the industry bar for intelligence and makes a solid attempt for the top spot in the leaderboards.

If the benchmark results provided by Anthropic are to be believed, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a massive improvement over Anthropic’s previous flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, and outperforms competitors such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro. Additionally, Claude 3.5 Sonnet follows the recent trend of making AI models not only smarter but also faster, being two times faster than Claude 3 Opus.

Source: Anthropic

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