Anthropic, the rival of ChatGPT, announced Claude 3 on Monday. It is an AI model trained using constitutional AI to be safe, accurate, and secure, making it the best assistant for you to do your best work. The new chatbot can summarize up to about 150,000 words, or a lengthy book, compared to ChatGPT’s ability to summarize about 3,000 and analyse visuals.
This article includes all the information about the Claude 3 model family, which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks.
What is Claude 3?
Claude 3 model family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Each successive model offers increasingly powerful performance, allowing users to select the optimal balance of intelligence, speed, and cost for their specific application.
| Model | Feature | Price |
| Haiku (Light & Fast) | Our fastest model can execute lightweight actions, with industry-leading speed. | $15 | $75 |
| Sonnet (Hard-working) | Our best combination of performance and speed for efficient, high-throughput tasks. | $3 | $15 |
| Opus (Powerful) | Our most intelligent model, can handle complex analysis, longer tasks with multiple steps, and higher-order math and coding tasks. | $0.25 | $1.25 |
This is the first time Anthropic has offered multimodal support. Users can upload photos, charts, documents, and other types of unstructured data for analysis and answers.
All Claude 3 models show increased capabilities in analysis and forecasting, nuanced content creation, code generation, and conversing in non-English languages like Spanish, Japanese, and French.
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Why to choose Claude?
Claude, in comparison to other available AI platforms, can process large amounts of information, brainstorm ideas, generate text and code, help you understand subjects, coach you through difficult situations, simplify your busy work so you can focus on what matters most, and so much more.
- The Claude 3 models can power live customer chats, auto-completions, and data extraction tasks where responses must be immediate and in real time.
- It can process a wide range of visual formats, including photos, charts, graphs, and technical diagrams.
- The latest models show a more nuanced understanding of requests, recognize real harm, and refuse to answer harmless prompts much less often.
- Claude maintains high accuracy at scale, so they can point to precise sentences in reference material to verify their answers.
- The Claude 3 models are designed efficiently to better follow complex, multi-step instructions.
- It initially offers a 200K context window upon launch.
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Opus and Sonnet are now available to use on claude.ai, as is the Claude API, which is now generally available in 159 countries. Haiku will be available soon.
Claude is free to use, with usage limitations. You can access more features and unlock more usage by upgrading to Claude Pro for a monthly price of $20 (US) or £18 (UK) plus applicable tax for your region.
The startup by former OpenAI research executives, has raised approximately $7.3 billion in funding over the last year from five different investors, including Google, Salesforce, and Amazon.
