Weekly Tech Recap: Anthropic releases its GPT-4o rival, X restricts free users from starting live streams and more
Anthropic, the maker of the popular Claude AI chatbot, has released a new AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which claims to outperform GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro in a variety of tasks. The new model is available for free on the Claude website and iOS app.
However, premium users will get up to 5x higher rate limits.According to Anthropic, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro in most overall and vision benchmarks. The new language model comes with a 200K token context window, which translates to around 1500 words.In terms of real-world use, Anthropic says Claude 3.5 is claimed to be better at understanding nuance, humour and complex instructions while also offering a more natural and relatable tone in its writing.
Coding skills are also said to have improved dramatically, with Anthropic stating that Claude 3.5 Sonnet can independently write, edit and execute code with "sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities".Elon Musk-owned social media platform X announced on Friday that it will soon require users to have a premium subscription in order to start a livestream. The new update comes shortly after X made likes on the platform private for all users.X did not give a timeline for when the livestream feature would go behind the paywall but said it would happen "soon".
Users will also no longer be able to start livestreams via the X integration on the encoder platform.The news was confirmed in a post from the official '@live' profile on X, which read:, “Starting soon, only Premium subscribers will be able to livestream (create live video streams) on X. This includes going live from an encoder with X integration.
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