June 20 Reuters Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon.com, on Thursday released an updated artificial intelligence model and a new layout to boost user productivity, continuing an industry sprint to push technology39;s frontier.

Three months after rolling out its Claude 3 family of AI models, Anthropic said it was launching Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Compared with Claude 3 Opus which CEO Dario Amodei in March called the RollsRoyce of models Anthropic39;s latest system scores higher on benchmark exams, runs about twice as fast, and is priced for software developers at a fifth the cost.

AI models are a bit more fungible than cars, Amodei told Reuters. I don39;t have to buy them and hold onto them for 20 years. That39;s one advantage of our field.

Like Anthropic, ChatGPT39;s creator OpenAI, Google and others are similarly touting AI advances at a breakneck pace.

For consumers, Anthropic has made its latest technology available for free at Claude.ai and in an iOS app. It also is letting web users opt into a setting called Artifacts. This organizes the content that users prompt Claude to generate whether the outline for a novel or a simple computer game in a window display alongside their chat with the AI.

Coupled with a new group subscription plan, Amodei said Artifacts was a step towards being able to work collaboratively and being able to use your model to produce finished products.

Anthropic plans to release more AI models this year, including Claude 3.5…