Anthropic has just announced a big upgrade to Claude 3 – which in its Opus version, beats GPT-4 across a wide range of benchmarks. From The Verge:

Anthropic claims Claude 3 models can give near-instant results even while parsing dense material like a research paper. A blog post says Haiku, the smallest version of Claude 3, is “the fastest and most cost-effective model on the market,” able to read a dense research paper complete with charts and graphs “in less than three seconds.”

Anthropic says Opus outperformed most models in several benchmarking tests. It showed better graduate-level reasoning than OpenAI’s GPT-4, getting 50.4 percent in that test over GPT-4’s 35.7 percent. It also answered math questions, coded, and understood reasoning better. 

It looks as though Anthropic wants users to pay USD $20 a month for access to Claude Opus – and now we’re getting into a similar situation to the ‘streaming wars’ that ended badly for nearly all concerned.

Read The Verge report here, and Anthropic’s announcement here.