Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs OpenAI’s GPT-4o: 8 reasons Claude outshines the competition

In the competitive AI landscape, tech giants are racing to develop their own AI technologies using advanced tools.

One standout example is Anthropic's latest innovation, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which has quickly gained attention since its recent launch.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Meta’s LlaMA-400b in both speed and performance. 

Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet.

This is the first release in our 3.5 model family.

Sonnet now outperforms competitor models on key evaluations, at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus and one-fifth the cost.

Try it for free: https://t.co/uLbS2JMEK9pic.twitter.com/qz569rES18

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) June 20, 2024

Anthropic claims it operates twice as fast as its predecessor, Claude 3 Opus, making it ideal for complex tasks like context-sensitive customer support and multi-step workflows, all at a competitive price point.

I just recreated a basic 3D DOOM game using Claude Sonnet 3.5 with Artifacts in just 3 prompts!

The game has a procedurally generated map, sound effects, zombies that come after you, and a mini-map 👾

To do something like this took me 2 days when GPT-4 first came out. Wild! pic.twitter.com/gNQH1PU8rn

— Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar) June 22, 2024

A key feature of Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the Artifacts feature which allows users to interact with AI-generated content like code snippets and text documents in real-time.  This feature enhances collaboration by providing a dedicated workspace alongside conversations.

The AI community has also noted Claude 3.5 Sonnet's ability to play sounds and generate intricate code, such as creating a 3D solar system simulation or analysing complex financial data with advanced reasoning.

claude 3.5 sonnet's coding abilities are insane...

just made a threejs+cannonjs 3d solar system with physics and collisions in single conversation.
☀️🪐🤯 pic.twitter.com/WJkHDP9vPK

— João Montenegro (@JohnMontenegro) June 20, 2024

Additionally, Claude 3.5 Sonnet has been used to develop games, solve coding challenges, and enhance Excel sheets into interactive dashboards. 

I'm speechless. The new Anthropic model, Claude Sonnet 3.5 is the greatest model in reasoning capabilities.

Here’s my initial experiment:

Setup and Context

First, I uploaded a complex chat showing the prices of:
- US Dollar
- S&P 500 Index
- Bank interest rate

I added this… pic.twitter.com/EYrXQ6nGUz

— Muratcan Koylan (@youraimarketer) June 20, 2024

Its versatility extends to deep learning visualisations, showcasing its potential across various applications.

I asked Claude 3.5 Sonnet to create a new and original game, designed to be played in quick sessions.

It created Color Cascade:

A game where you are supposed to catch the right color from a series of falling shapes.

Feel the AGI yet? pic.twitter.com/IC3xhXrLAK

— Pietro Schirano (@skirano) June 20, 2024

In conclusion, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet emerges as a formidable competitor in the AI field, offering advanced capabilities that set it apart. 

To start, if you want to see Claude 3.5 Sonnet in action solving a simple pull request, here's a quick demo video we made.

(voiceover by the one and only @sumbhavsethia) pic.twitter.com/Jaet2oFgvk

— Alex Albert (@alexalbert__) June 20, 2024

Claude 3, take this Excel Reverse Income Statement & make it a dashboard

Make it nicer. Add the ability to do sensitivity analysis.

All of this is real time. It diverges a bit from the spreadsheet because Claude can't read formulas, so it reconstructs the formulas itself (well) pic.twitter.com/uV92vX1cDH

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) June 20, 2024

Interested users can access Claude.ai and the Claude iOS app for free, with enhanced features available through subscription plans. The AI model is also accessible via Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

Visualizing Deep Learning with Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Need to pause now because I will soon hit a message capacity on Claude. 😅 pic.twitter.com/TK3C0iXn5h

— elvis (@omarsar0) June 20, 2024

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