Anthropic, the San Francisco AI startup founded in 2021 by researchers who broke away from OpenAI, has released a new version of its Claude model that it says surpasses the capabilities of OpenAI's most recent AI system, GPT-4o.
Anthropic's release of its new AI model, which it calls Claude 3.5 Sonnet, comes just a month after OpenAI launched GPT-4o, showing the intensity and speed at which top AI companies are competing to match and surpass the features and performance of one another's software.
Whether Anthropic's claims that Claude 3.5 has beaten GPT4-o on industry benchmark tests is accepted by OpenAI and the wider community of AI researchers and developers at companies deploying these so-called "AI foundation models" remains to be seen. But it does underscore the difficulty AI companies are having in creating product differentiation that lasts more than a few weeks.
