What's new from Anthropic and what's next: Alex Albert
Aug 5, 2024 · 13:38
Alex Albert, Head of Developer Relations at Anthropic, argues the industry is in a 'magic star icon phase'—tacking AI onto existing products—and urges rebuilding from the ground up. He announces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which scores 64% on pull request evals (vs 38% for 3 Opus), with 200k context, vision improvements, and pricing at $3/M input and $15/M output tokens. New features include Artifacts for collaborative creation of code and React components from screenshots, Projects for team knowledge grounding, and an enhanced ToolUse API supporting hundreds of tools and structured JSON output. Future models (3.5 Haiku/Opus) will be smarter, cheaper, and faster; a steering API for interpretability allows clamping feature values to control outputs.