In the race to become a dominate tech company in the coming generation of AI software, OpenAI rival Anthropic has released a new version of Claude, a chatbot that has now doubled in speed.
The Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is particularly good at writing software code and formulating texts, said product manager Michael Gerstenhaber at the launch on Thursday.
Anthropic is primarily aimed at use in companies and wants to gain a foothold in the legal and financial sectors, while pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is among its clients, using the AI to assist in drug development.
With the new model Anthropic is introducing a feature called Artifacts, which allows AI-generated content to be shared and further processed with other employees.
Anthropic offers three versions of Claude: Haiku is optimised for speed, Opus for intelligence and Sonnet as a balance between the two.
According to the company, the new version 3.5 of Sonnet is faster and more powerful than the top model Claude 3 Opus, which was only launched in March. Anthropic is convinced that it is at the forefront of the industry, said Gerstenhaber.
The ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Google, Facebook parent company Meta and start-ups such as Anthropic are currently all vying to develop leading AI models. In May OpenAI launched ChatGPT-4o, which was able to maintain a natural-sounding conversation with humans.
