Meet Claude - An AI Model Challenging ChatGPT

Dan Hughes
Apr 15, 2024
2 min read

There's a new AI model on the block that's giving ChatGPT (GPT4) some competition. Introducing Claude3, created by Anthropic - a company founded by folks who were part of the early team at OpenAI.

But should you ditch ChatGPT for Claude3? Like all technical decisions, the answer depends on your specific needs and use case.

Claude isn't just one model, but rather a suite of three: Claude Haiku, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Opus. Each offers progressively better performance and capabilities. Below are the capabilities of each Claude model:

Claude 3 Haiku:

Designed for speedy, succinct tasks.
Use cases: Live customer interactions, content moderation, quickly processing information-dense documents and visuals.

Claude 3 Sonnet:

Balances depth and efficiency
Use cases: Nuanced content creation, code generation, conversing in multiple languages
Ideal for: Large-scale AI deployments, sales automation, time-saving tasks

Claude 3 Opus:

Most advanced model for enterprises
Use cases: Complex problem-solving, in-depth research and development, strategic analysis.
Excels at handling open-ended prompts and navigating unseen scenarios

Trade-off: Opus achieves state-of-the-art accuracy across benchmarks, while Sonnet and Haiku prioritize efficiency/lower cost over maximum accuracy.

You can interact with Claude directly at their website claude.ai. There's a free version (Sonnet model) to test out, as well as a paid tier at $20/month that unlocks access to the high-performing Opus model. For developers and businesses, Anthropic also offers API access to build atop their AI infrastructure.

So what exactly can Claude do? Here are some of its standout strengths that we have noticed:

Writing: Claude's writing tends to feel more natural and human-like.
Advanced Reasoning: It can tackle complex cognitive tasks requiring logic, analysis and problem-solving that go beyond simple pattern matching.
Vision Analysis: Feed it almost any image - handwritten notes, graphs, photos - and Claude can transcribe and analyze the contents.
Code Expertise: Need a website mocked up, data parsed into JSON, or a codebase debugged? Claude's got coding skills.
Large Context Window: Claude can understand and operate on long prompts and documents.
Prompt Mastery: Its ability to interpret and generate high-quality prompts is excellent. Anthropic even published a prompt library as a reference - https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/prompt-library

Some key limitations of Claude are:

Inability to generate images.
No access to the internet.
Cannot upload and analyze complex Excel or CSV files like code interpreter.
Build/publish GPT models and apps.

Overall, Claude3 is a highly capable AI model, especially for professional and enterprise use cases. We've added it to our arsenal of tools to augment our day-to-day and client activities. I think it feels more natural. Try it for free and let us know what you think.