The company says it performs on par with, if not better than, what OpenAI and Google have made publicly available.model being released by a startup every couple of weeks continues, and this time around it is the turn of Anthropic which has revealed
“Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available for free on Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, while Claude Pro and Team plan subscribers can access it with significantly higher rate limits. It is also available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. The model costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with a 200K token context window,” the company shared in a blog post.
For those unfamiliar with the company’s different tiers of AI model, there are three – Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Ranging from smallest to largest in terms of functionality and capability, 3.5 Sonnet is said to be twice as powerful as the previous generation Claude 3 Opus. “When instructed and provided with the relevant tools, Claude 3.5 Sonnet can independently write, edit, and execute code with sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities. It handles code translations with ease, making it particularly effective for updating legacy applications and migrating codebases,” the company adds., Anthropic has noted that 3.5 Sonnet is also a little more human in terms of the responses it generates.