Unleashing Claude 3.5 Sonnet: A ChatGPT Rival Guide

Published On Wed Oct 30 2024
Unleashing Claude 3.5 Sonnet: A ChatGPT Rival Guide

Anthropic's Claude: How to use the impressive ChatGPT rival

Though it may not capture as many headlines as its rivals from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI do, Anthropic’s Claude is no less powerful than its frontier model peers.

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About Claude

In fact, the latest version, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, has proven more than a match for Gemini and ChatGPT across a number of industry benchmarks. Like Gemini, Copilot, and ChatGPT, Claude is a large language model (LLM) that relies on algorithms to predict the next word in a sentence based on its enormous corpus of training material.

However, Claude differs from other models in that it is trained and conditioned to adhere to a 73-point “Constitutional AI” framework designed to render the AI’s responses both helpful and harmless.

Evolving Capabilities

Anthropic released the first iteration of Claude in March 2023 and quickly updated it to Claude 2 four months later in July 2023. These early versions were rather limited in their coding, math, and reasoning capabilities. That changed with the release of the Claude 3.0 family — Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus — in March 2024. Opus, the largest of the three models, handily beat out GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Gemini 1.0.

AI Agent Computer Interface (ACI)

Opus’ position atop the pile would be short-lived. In June 2024, Anthropic debuted Claude 3.5, an even more potent model. Claude 3.5 Sonnet “operates at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus,” making it ideal “for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multistep workflows.”

Unique Features

Claude was the first LLM chatbot to offer a dedicated collaboration space outside of the chat conversation itself. The Artifacts feature allows users to create a dynamic workspace where they can see, edit, and build upon Claude’s creations in real time, seamlessly integrating AI-generated content into their projects and workflows.

Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

Claude can also interact directly with other desktop apps by emulating a human user’s keystrokes, mouse movements, and cursor clicks through the “Computer Use” API.

Getting Started with Claude

You can try Claude for yourself through the Anthropic website, as well as the Claude Android and iOS apps. It is free to use, supports image and document uploads, and offers access to the Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new) model.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet boasts a number of advantages over its main rival, ChatGPT. For example, Claude offers users a much larger context window (200,000 characters versus 128,000), enabling users to craft more nuanced and detailed conversations.