The battle between AI chatbots is more than a two-horse race. Anthropic<\/a>, the company formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in several key industry benchmarks. It even hit “near-human” levels on some tasks, the company wrote in a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are three new chatbots under the Claude 3 umbrella, including Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Sonnet powers the Claude.ai chatbot<\/a> and is offered for free with an email sign-in. Meanwhile, Opus is the largest and most powerful LLM and will be available with a $20 per month subscription via the “Claude Pro” service. It’s also multi-modal, so it can work with both text and image inputs, unlike past versions.<\/p>\n All Claude 3 models “can power live customer chats, auto-completions and data extraction tasks where responses must be immediate and in real-time,” the company said. On top of promising “near-instant results,” they can supposedly handle longer, multi-step instructions with increased accuracy.<\/p>\n