Anthropic rolled out<\/a> its newest AI language model on Thursday, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The updated chatbot outperforms the company\u2019s previous top-tier model, Claude 3 Opus, while working at twice the speed. Claude users (including those on free accounts) can check it out beginning today.<\/p>\n Sonnet, which tends to be Anthropic\u2019s most balanced model, is the first release in the Claude 3.5 family. The company says Claude 3.5 Haiku (the fastest in each generation) and Claude 3.5 Opus (the most powerful) will arrive later this year. (Those models will stay on version 3 in the meantime.) The Sonnet update comes only a few months after the arrival of the Claude 3 family,<\/a> showcasing the breakneck speed AI companies are working to spit out their latest and greatest.<\/p>\n Anthropic claims Claude 3.5 Sonnet marks a step forward in understanding nuance, humor and complicated prompts, and it can write in a more natural tone. Benchmarks (above) show the new model breaking industry records for graduate-level reasoning, undergraduate-level knowledge and coding proficiency. It beats OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o<\/a> on many of the benchmarks Anthropic published. However, the latest Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini<\/a> and Llama<\/a> models tend to score within a few percentage points of each other on most tests, underscoring the tight competition.<\/p>\n The company claims Claude 3.5 Sonnet is also better at interpreting visual input than Claude 3.0 Opus. Anthropic says the new model can \u201caccurately transcribe text from imperfect images,\u201d a skill it hopes will attract customers in retail, logistics and financial services who need to grok data from charts, graphs and other visual cues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n