Despite being more expensive than its competitors, Anthropic's cofounders, Dario and Daniela Amodei, believe that the performance of their models justifies the cost. The company also plans to continue improving its models, with updates expected throughout the year. The company's focus remains on business customers, with its models designed with different business use cases in mind. Early test users of Claude 3, including productivity software maker Asana, reported significant improvements in response times and content creation.
Key takeaways:
- Anthropic has announced a new series of large language models called Claude 3, which comes in three versions — Opus, Sonnet and Haiku — that vary by performance and price. The company claims these models are the world’s most intelligent to date, outperforming rival offerings from OpenAI and Google.
- The most powerful and expensive version, Claude 3 Opus, has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra across a series of benchmarks. It is expected to be used by businesses for complex data analysis and biomedical research.
- Anthropic's focus is more on business customers rather than consumer use cases. The company's customers include tech companies Gitlab, Notion, Quora and Salesforce, financial giant Bridgewater and conglomerate SAP, as well as businesses research portal LexisNexis, telco SK Telecom and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
- Anthropic plans to add features including code interpretation, search functions and source citations in the coming months. The company is also planning to continue scaling up their models and making them more intelligent, as well as making the smaller, cheaper models smarter and more efficient.