Anthropic Launches Claude 3 Series: AI Models Claimed to Outperform GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra

Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 Series Models, Setting New Performance Standards for AI

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has launched its new Claude 3 series models, establishing a new benchmark for performance across various cognitive tasks. This series includes three sub-models: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus, each designed to cater to diverse AI application needs, offering different levels of intelligence, speed, and cost.

According to official announcements, the flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, surpasses OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra in understanding knowledge at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in handling mathematics and complex tasks. All models in the Claude 3 series excel in content analysis, prediction, creative writing, code generation, and multilingual interactions.

The Claude 3 series has been specifically optimized for real-time interactions, greatly enhancing capabilities in live chat, autocomplete, and data extraction. Notably, Claude 3 Haiku processes information-dense research papers in just three seconds, achieving the fastest speed and best cost-efficiency. Claude 3 Sonnet doubles the processing speed of its predecessors and is particularly suited for knowledge retrieval and sales automation. Meanwhile, Opus matches the processing speed of Claude 2 and 2.1 but provides a significantly upgraded level of intelligence.

In terms of visual capabilities, the Claude 3 series stands competitively alongside other leading models, with Claude 3 Opus even outperforming GPT-4V and Gemini 1.0 Ultra in certain categories.

Compared to previous models, the Claude 3 series exhibits a notable reduction in refusals to respond when interacting with prompts that approach system safety limits.

Additionally, Claude 3 offers an extensive context window of 200,000 tokens, capable of accepting over 1 million tokens in input. Anthropic might expand support for even larger context windows in the future. The Opus and Sonnet models are now integrated into Anthropic's Claude.ai and Claude API and are accessible in 159 countries. Claude 3 Haiku will be available soon. Sonnet can also be accessed through Amazon Web Services' Bedrock and Google Cloud's Vertex AI Model Garden, with Opus and Haiku set to follow on these platforms.