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OpenAI
competitor
Anthropic
on
Thursday
announced
Claude
3.5
Sonnet,
its
most
powerful
artificial
intelligence
model
yet.
Claude
is
one
of
the
chatbots
that,
like
OpenAI’s
ChatGPT
and Google‘s
Gemini,
has
exploded
in
popularity
in
the
past
year.
Anthropic,
which
was
founded
by
ex-OpenAI
research
executives,
has
backers
including
Google, Salesforce and Amazon.
In
the
past
year,
it’s
closed
five different
funding
deals totaling
about
$7.3
billion.
The
news
follows
Anthropic’s
debut
of
its
Claude
3
family
of
models
in
March
and
OpenAI’s
GPT-4o
in
May.
The
company
said
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
is
faster
than
its
previous
leading
model,
Claude
3
Opus,
and
is
the
first
model
from
Anthropic’s
new
Claude
3.5
family.
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
Claude
3.5
Sonnet
is
free
from
the
company’s
website,
Claude.ai,
and
in
the
Claude
iPhone
app.
Claude
Pro
and
Team
subscribers
can
access
the
latest
model
with
higher
rate
limits.
“It
shows
marked
improvement
in
grasping
nuance,
humor,
and
complex
instructions,
and
is
exceptional
at
writing
high-quality
content
with
a
natural,
relatable
tone,”
the
company
said
in
a
blog
post.
It
can
also
write,
edit
and
execute
code.
Anthropic
also
announced
“Artifacts,”
which
it
said
allows
a
user
to
ask
its
Claude
chatbot
to,
for
example,
generate
a
text
document
or
code
and
then
opens
the
result
in
a
dedicated
window.
“This
creates
a
dynamic
workspace
where
they
can
see,
edit,
and
build
upon
Claude’s
creations
in
real-time,”
the
company
said,
adding
that
it
expects
Artifacts
will
be
useful
for
code
development,
legal
contract
drafting
and
analysis,
business
report
writing
and
more.
Claude
Artifacts
As
startups
like
Anthropic
and
OpenAI
gain
steam
in
the
generative
AI
business,
they
—
alongside
tech
giants
like
Google,
Amazon,
Microsoft
and
Meta
—
have
been
part
of
an
AI
arms
race
to
integrate
the
technology
to
ensure
they
don’t
fall
behind
in
a
market
that’s predicted
to
top
$1
trillion in
revenue
within
a
decade.
News
of
Anthropic’s
new
model
follows
the
company’s
debut
in
May
of
its
first-ever
enterprise
offering.
The
plan
for
businesses,
dubbed
Team,
had
been
in
development
over
the
last
few
quarters
and
involved
beta-testing
with
between
30
and
50
customers
in
industries
such
as
technology,
financial
services,
legal
services
and
health
care,
Anthropic
co-founder
Daniela
Amodei
told
CNBC
in
an
interview
last
month.
The
idea
for
the
service
was
partially
borne
out
of
many
of
those
same
customers
asking
for
a
dedicated
enterprise
product,
Amodei
added.
“So
much
of
what
we
were
hearing
from
enterprise
businesses
is
people
are
kind
of
using
Claude
at
the
office
already,”
Amodei
said
at
the
time.
Last
month,
shortly
after
Anthropic’s
new
product
debut,
Instagram
co-founder
Mike
Krieger
joined
the
company
as
chief
product
officer.
Krieger,
the
former
chief
technology
officer
of Meta-owned
Instagram,
grew
the
platform
to
1
billion
users
and
increased
its
engineering
team
to
more
than
450
people
during
his
time
there,
per
a
release. OpenAI’s
former
safety
leader
Jan
Leike
also
joined
the
company
in
May.
