Anthropic just released its Claude 3.5 Haiku model, offering new improvements to tool use, reasoning,
Anthropic just released its Claude 3.5 Haiku model, offering new improvements to tool use, reasoning, and coding compared to its predecessor — but it comes with a pricing hike that has drawn criticism from the developer community. The details: - Anthropic introduced 3.5 Haiku in October alongside the platform’s announcement of computer use, beating the previous top model, 3 Opus, on key benchmarks. - The new model's pricing has increased 4x to $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, compared to $0.25 and $1.25 for Claude 3 Haiku. - The model also comes in at nearly 7x the cost of similar-sized rival GPT-4o- mini and 13x the cost of Gemini Flash, despite similar benchmark performance. - Unlike previous versions, the 3.5 release launches without image analysis capabilities but offers an extended knowledge cutoff date through July 2024. - The model is now available via Anthropic’s API, Google’s Vertex AI, and Amazon Bedrock. The fact that Anthropic’s small but fast model now exceeds the capabilities of the previous generation’s largest model says a lot about how fast things are moving. Conversely, the price hike to ‘reflect its increase in intelligence’ will ruffle feathers — especially given the cost of similar competitors.