Anthropic Releases ‘Most Intelligent’ AI Model in Rivalry With OpenAI

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is releasing a new AI model that it calls its fastest and most capable yet in a rivalry with OpenAI.

Anthropic introduced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, an updated version of its Claude 3 model that it just released in March. The company said Thursday that the new model — the technology that underpins its popular chatbot Claude — is twice as fast as its most powerful previous version. Anthropic said in its evaluations, the model outperforms leading competitors like OpenAI on several key intelligence capabilities, such as coding and text-based reasoning.

“This is exciting because this is now, based on our evaluations and benchmarks, the best and most intelligent model in the industry,” Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s co-founder and president, said in an interview. “We are aiming for this to be the model of choice for enterprise businesses across the stack.”

Anthropic was started in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI employees. The company has emphasized its commitment to building AI safely and responsibly, which it says helps gain trust with business customers. Anthropic is competing with other AI developers like OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp., which are also building out their enterprise businesses. Last month, OpenAI released a new model, GPT 4o, that it similarly said was more capable, faster, and cheaper, although it hasn’t yet widely released a key voice assistant feature.