Anthropic has launched its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users on its Claude AI chatbot platform. Reports of the model’s debut surfaced on social media Thursday morning, with TechCrunch independently confirming its availability on both the web and mobile versions of Claude.
Unveiled in November, Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms its predecessor, 3 Opus, in specific benchmarks, showcasing its advanced capabilities. Anthropic highlights its strengths in areas like coding recommendations, data extraction, labeling, and content moderation. Additionally, the model can produce longer text outputs compared to 3 Haiku and boasts a more recent knowledge cutoff, allowing it to reference more up-to-date information. 
However, the 3.5 Haiku model does not support image analysis, a limitation compared to other Anthropic models like 3 Haiku and 3.5 Sonnet.
The release of 3.5 Haiku sparked some controversy when it was first introduced into Anthropic’s API last month. Although initially promised to cost the same as 3 Haiku, Anthropic later revised its stance, citing the model’s enhanced “intelligence” as the reason for a higher API price.
