Anthropic launches newest AI model, three months after its last

Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon.com, on Thursday released an updated artificial intelligence model and a new layout to boost user productivity, continuing an industry sprint to push technology’s frontier.

Three months after rolling out its Claude 3 family of AI models, Anthropic said it was launching Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Compared with Claude 3 Opus – which CEO Dario Amodei in March called the “Rolls-Royce of models” – Anthropic’s latest system scores higher on benchmark exams, runs about twice as fast, and is priced for software developers at a fifth the cost.