Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet: The New Industry Standard in AI Models
By - Blink AI Team / First Created on - June 24, 2024
Introduction
Today marks an exciting milestone with the launch of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest addition to the Claude 3.5 model family by Anthropic. This groundbreaking AI model sets a new industry standard for intelligence, outperforming not only competitor models but also its predecessor, Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3.5 Sonnet achieves this while maintaining the speed and cost efficiency of the mid-tier Claude 3 Sonnet model.
Availability and Pricing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now accessible via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Pricing is set at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with a generous 200K token context window.
What's New?
Frontier Intelligence
Claude 3.5 Sonnet excels in areas like graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate-level knowledge (MMLU), and coding proficiency (HumanEval). It showcases significant improvements in understanding nuances, humor, and complex instructions, making it exceptional at generating high-quality, relatable content.
2x Speed
Operating at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet combines enhanced performance with cost-effective pricing. This makes it ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multi-step workflows.
Advanced Coding Skills
With the ability to write, edit, and execute code independently when provided with the relevant tools, Claude 3.5 Sonnet demonstrates sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities. It is particularly effective for updating legacy applications and migrating codebases.
State-of-the-Art Vision
Claude 3.5 Sonnet surpasses its predecessor on standard vision benchmarks, with notable improvements in visual reasoning tasks such as interpreting charts and graphs. It can accurately transcribe text from imperfect images, making it invaluable for industries like retail, logistics, and financial services.
API Availability and Resources
Developers can now build applications with Claude 3.5 Sonnet using various resources:
- Compare all Claude models
- Watch demo videos on our YouTube channel
- Utilize our Python SDK and TypeScript SDK
- Explore example code for vision, RAG, and more in the Anthropic Cookbook
- Connect with other builders on our Discord server
Introducing Artifacts
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available for free on claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, with significantly higher rate limits for Claude Pro and Team plan subscribers. The new Artifacts feature allows users to interact with Claude in innovative ways. When generating content such as code snippets, text documents, or website designs, these Artifacts appear in a dedicated window alongside the conversation.
The Anthropic team is eager to see the creative and innovative applications you will develop with Claude 3.5 Sonnet.