Anthropic launches the Claude 3 family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)
Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku introduced vision and a 200K context window; Anthropic reported that Opus outperformed GPT-4 on most common benchmarks, making it the first model widely seen as matching or beating GPT-4.
Key facts
- Released 4 March 2024 (Haiku followed on 13 March)
- Three tiers: Opus (most capable), Sonnet, Haiku (fastest)
- 200K-token context window; image input
- Opus priced at $15 / $75 per million input/output tokens
What happened
Anthropic released a three-tier family across capability and cost, available in claude.ai and via API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Why it matters
Ended GPT-4's year-long uncontested lead and established the Opus/Sonnet/Haiku naming used thereafter.
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: created
Related events
- Anthropic releases Claude 2 with public claude.ai access ★★★
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet launches with Artifacts ★★★★
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