November 5, 2024 - Anthropic officially released the new generation of fast model Claude 3.5 Haiku. The company says that at similar speeds to the Claude 3 Haiku, the Claude 3.5 Haiku improves on every skill and surpasses the previous-generation largest model, the Claude 3 Opus, in many smart benchmarks.
Claude 3.5 Haiku was initially launched as a text-only model, with image input capabilities coming soon. The model is currently accessible through Anthropic’s API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.
Price and cost savings:
Claude 3.5 Haiku is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Users can save up to 90% with prompt caching and 50% with the Message Batches API. More pricing details can be found on Anthropic’s pricing page.
Main use cases:
With faster speeds, improved command following, and more precise tool usage, Claude 3.5 Haiku is suitable for a variety of scenarios, including:
Code completion: Claude 3.5 Haiku can provide fast and accurate code suggestions and completions, thereby speeding up the development process and improving the productivity of software teams.
Interactive chatbot: Enhanced conversational capabilities and fast response times make Claude 3.5 Haiku ideal for supporting responsive chatbots that need to handle high volumes of user interaction, especially for customer service, e-commerce, and education platforms.
Data extraction and labeling: Claude 3.5 Haiku can process and classify information efficiently and can be used for rapid data extraction and automatic labeling tasks. This is especially useful for organizations in the financial, medical and research fields that handle large amounts of unstructured data.
Real-time content moderation: Improved reasoning and content understanding capabilities enable Claude 3.5 Haiku to provide reliable real-time content moderation, which is important for social platforms, online communities and media organizations that need to maintain safe, appropriate content at scale.
Benchmark:
Anthropic said that Claude 3.5 Haiku demonstrated strong performance and speed in a variety of coding, tool usage and reasoning tasks. However, specific benchmark data was not provided in the announcement.
Trust and safety:
Anthropic emphasizes that safety is at the core of every step of its AI development. During the development of Claude 3.5 Haiku, they conducted an extensive security assessment covering multiple languages and policy areas and enhanced Claude's ability to handle sensitive content with caution. Anthropic's internal testing shows that Claude 3.5 Haiku makes substantial progress in functionality while maintaining its strict security standards. However, the announcement does not provide specific details about these security assessments and tests.
