Anthropic has released one of its latest AI models, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users of its AI chatbot platform Claude.
Reports about the release of 3.5 Haiku on Claude began circulating on social media Thursday morning, and TechCrunch was able to independently confirm that the model is available on Claude on web and mobile.
Claude Haiku 3.5 is finally available on web and mobile apps 🔥 https://t.co/qsCoKUuO9o pic.twitter.com/M14CrROf34
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The 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced in November, matches or bests the performance of Anthropic's upcoming flagship model, the 3 Opus, on certain benchmarks. According to Anthropic, 3.5 Haiku is particularly well-suited for coding recommendations, data extraction and labeling, and content moderation.
3.5 Haiku can also output longer chunks of text than its predecessor, 3 Haiku, and the model has an updated knowledge cutoff, meaning it can see more recent events.
However, this model does not support image analysis, so it is less capable in at least one important respect than Anthropic's other available models, the 3 Haiku and 3.5 Sonnet.
3.5 Haiku was the subject of a small controversy when it appeared in Anthropic's API early last month. Anthropic initially suggested that 3.5 Haiku would cost the same as 3 Haiku, but has since changed its mind, arguing that the increased “intelligence” of the model warrants higher API costs. did.