October 22, 2024
Anthropic announces Claude 3.5 Haiku
AnthropicAn AI safety company — creators of the Claude family of language models. announced Claude 3.5 Haiku on October 22, 2024 — a fast, low-cost model matching Claude 3 Opus on many coding and chat tasks; APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. access followed November 4, 2024.
What it was for
Claude 3.5 Haiku targeted high-volume workloads: customer support, classification, and sub-second chat. It let teams route simple queries to a cheap model and reserve Sonnet/Opus for hard tasks — a pattern that became standard in LLMLarge language model — a neural network trained on vast text to generate and reason about language. routing.
Companies
- Anthropic
Why it's here
Haiku made frontier-quality responses economical at scale.
Why it mattered
Fast cheap models enabled LLMLarge language model — a neural network trained on vast text to generate and reason about language. features in latency-sensitive products.
What it solved
Using flagship models for every request was too slow and expensive for production traffic.
Media
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Related
- Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet releasedJune 20, 2024
- Anthropic Claude 3 releasedMarch 4, 2024
- OpenAI GPT-4o releasedMay 13, 2024