Wednesday, 26 February, 2025

Anthropic's Latest AI Model Trained Cost-Effectively

Anthropic's newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, was developed with a training cost of "a few tens of millions of dollars," utilizing less than 10²⁶ floating-point operations (FLOPs). This efficient approach contrasts with industry trends of escalating AI development expenses. The model introduces an "extended thinking mode" for complex queries and a research preview of Claude Code, a command-line tool for developers.