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.
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AI «models are a bit more fungible than cars,» Amodei told Reuters. «I don't have to buy them and hold onto them for 20 years. That's one advantage of our field.»
Like Anthropic, ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, Google and others are similarly touting AI advances at a breakneck pace.
For consumers, Anthropic has made its latest technology available for free at Claude.ai and in an iOS app. It also is letting web users opt into a setting called «Artifacts.» This organizes the content that users prompt Claude to generate — whether the outline for a novel or a simple computer game — in a window display alongside their chat with the AI.
Coupled with a new group subscription plan, Amodei
