Tired of ChatGPT outages? Claude AI just got its biggest update yet ...
Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot has long been one of the best ChatGPT alternatives and now a big update has taken it to another level – including beating OpenAI's GPT-4o model in some industry standard benchmark tests.
Enhanced Features of Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Like Google Gemini, Claude is a family of three different AI models. The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet (which takes the baton from Claude 3 Sonnet) is the company's mid-tier AI model, sitting in between the Claude 3 Haiku (for smaller tasks) and the larger 'Opus' model, which is more like GPT-4.
This new Sonnet model now powers the browser-based Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app, both of which you can use right now for free. There are Pro and Team subscriptions available for Claude that let you use it more intensely, but the free version gives you a taste of what it can do.
Improvements in Claude 3.5 Sonnet
So what's new in Claude 3.5 Sonnet? The big improvements are its ability to handle vision-based tasks – for example, creating charts or transcribing handwritten notes – with Anthropic calling it "our strongest vision model yet". The company also says that Sonnet "shows a marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions".
The upgraded Claude is also simply faster and smarter than before, edging out ChatGPT's latest GPT-4o model across many benchmarks, according to Anthropic.
New Features in Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Another handy new feature in Claude 3.5 Sonnet is its so-called 'Artifacts' side window, which lets you see and tweak its visual creations without having to scroll back and forth through the chat. For example, if you ask it to create a text document, graph, or website design, these will appear in a separate window alongside your conversation.
You can see an example of that in action in the video above, which shows off Claude's potential for creating graphs and presentations.
Claude AI vs. ChatGPT
How does Claude stack up against ChatGPT? One thing Claude doesn't have is a voice or audio powers – it's purely a text-based AI assistant. So if you're looking to chat casually with an AI assistant to brainstorm ideas, then ChatGPT remains the best AI tool around.
But Claude 3.5 Sonnet is undoubtedly a powerful new rival for text-based tasks and coding, edging out GPT-4o in benchmarks and giving us an increasingly well-rounded new option for both creative tasks and coding.
Meta AI vs. ChatGPT vs Google Gemini
The headline AI battle might be ChatGPT vs Google Gemini vs Meta AI, but if you want a fast, smart AI sidekick to help with a variety of tasks, then it's well worth taking Claude 3.5 Sonnet for a spin in its browser version or iOS app.
