Anthropic, a leading AI company, is gearing up to release its highly anticipated model, Claude 3.5 Opus. This was revealed by the company’s chief, Dario Amodei, in a recent episode of the Lex Fridman podcast. The release of Claude 3.5 Opus comes after Anthropic launched two other models, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku, in July. However, the company did not release an upgrade for its most powerful model, Opus, which raised questions in the AI community.
In response to Fridman’s question about the release of Claude 3.5 Opus, Amodei stated that the company’s plan is still to have a Claude 3.5 Opus, although he did not provide an exact date. He also explained that the delay in the release is due to the need for excess computational power in pre-training, rigorous safety testing, and the company’s desire to build a new version of Opus that solves newer problems and delivers unprecedented value.
Amodei further stated that Anthropic sees an opportunity to further scale their models, with their most powerful model set to release soon. This raises the question of whether LLMs (large language models) are hitting the wall, as Anthropic has been on a feature release spree over the past few weeks. The company recently launched a new Computer Use feature, which has the potential to change the state of human-computer interaction. They also introduced a Visual PDF tool that allows Claude to visually analyze PDF documents and provide insights regarding the images, charts, and graphs inside.
With OpenAI set to release o1 in the next few days and Google heading towards the release of Gemini 2.0 at the end of this year, the AI community can expect a new battle of the flagship models. The release of Claude 3.5 Opus by Anthropic is a significant development in the field of AI and will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the industry.
