Anthropic introduces a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

In an announcement following OpenAI’s Operator (MSFT) release on Thursday, Anthropic announced a feature for its developer API called Citations. Anthropic blogged in part: “Today, we’re announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet delivers across-the-board improvements over its predecessor, with particularly significant gains in coding-an area where it already led the field. Claude 3.5 Haiku matches the performance of Claude 3 Opus, our prior largest model, on many evaluations at a similar speed to the previous generation of Haiku. We’re also introducing a groundbreaking new capability in public beta: computer use. Available today on the API, developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do-by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first frontier AI model to offer computer use in public beta. At this stage, it is still experimental-at times cumbersome and error-prone. We’re releasing computer use early for feedback from developers, and expect the capability to improve rapidly over time. Asana (ASAN), Canva, Cognition, DoorDash (DASH), Replit, and The Browser Company have already begun to explore these possibilities, carrying out tasks that require dozens, and sometimes even hundreds, of steps to complete.” The Fly notesDario and Daniela Amodei are the co-founders and owners of Anthropic. Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOGL) (GOOG) have also invested large amounts of money in the company.