Relegated to the background by the advent of ChatGPT 4 or the arrival of Mistral, the LLM (large language model) Claude from Anthropic returns in a third version which aims to dethrone, in its Opus version, references such as Google’s Gemini Ultra or GPT-4.
A comparison of the different versions of Claude 3 by Anthropic. © Anthropic
Claude 3 will be available in three versions:
- Haiku: the most minimalist model, which will be offered free to everyone. It is not yet available.
- Sonnet: the intermediate model, which will offer a certain “intelligence” at a reasonable price.
- Opus: the “deluxe” version of the new Anthropic model, which is both the most efficient and the most expensive.
In version 3, Claude also becomes multimodal, meaning that it is capable of assimilating documents in text form as well as images. Claude 3 will therefore be able to read and analyze visual documents. In this specific area, and again according to Anthropic, Claude 3 is positioned just below Google’s Gemini.
Claude’s ranking 3 compared to the competition in the field of “vision”. © Anthropic
The new version of Claude 3 is not available in France. So of course it would be easy to open an account on Anthropic’s site using a VPN connected to an exit point in the United States. However, creating an account is subject to entering an American telephone number. In this case, using a VPN is insufficient. All is not lost, however. Indeed, certain online services already allow access to Anthropic models. Thus, you can use You.com, a model aggregator which allows you to interact with ChatGPT 4, Mistral, Gemini and now Claude 3 in the Sonnet and Opus versions.
You.com provides access to several language models including Claude 3. © Image Capture / Les Numériques
Of course, you will not have unlimited access to Claude 3 in its Sonnet or Opus versions, but you will be able to ask five questions and evaluate the performance of the latest darling of the AI world.
If you want to test different AIs to evaluate the responses, you can also use services like Perplexity which allows, for a professional subscription of $20/month, to choose between several models.