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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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post #10

How does the computer use work -- Is this a desktop app they are providing that can do actions on your computer? Didn't see any such mention in the post

It is a docker container providing a remote desktop you can see; they strongly recomend you also run it inside a VM.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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post #9

I still feel like the difference between Sonnet and Opus is a bit unclear. Somewhere on Anthropic's website it says that Opus is the most advanced, but on other parts it says Sonnet is the most advanced and also the fastest. The UI doesn't make the distinction clear either. Then on Perplexity, Perplexity says that Opus is the most advanced, compared to Sonnet. And finally, in the table in the blogpost, Opus isn't eve…

Opus is a larger and more expensive model. Presumably 3.5 Opus will be the best but it hasn't been released. 3.5 Sonnet is better than 3.0 Opus kind of like how a newer i5 midrange processor is faster and cheaper than an old high-end i7.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

#24

Why not rev the numbers? "3.5" vs. "3.5 New" feels weird -- is there a particular reason why Anthropic doesn't want to call this 3.6 (or even 3.5.1)?

exactly my thought too, go up with the version number! Some negative examples: Claude Sonnet 3.5 for Workstations, Claude Sonnet 3.5 XP, Claude Sonnet 3.5 Max Pro, Claude Sonnet 3.5 Elite, Claude Sonnet 3.5 Ultra

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

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post #9

I still feel like the difference between Sonnet and Opus is a bit unclear. Somewhere on Anthropic's website it says that Opus is the most advanced, but on other parts it says Sonnet is the most advanced and also the fastest. The UI doesn't make the distinction clear either. Then on Perplexity, Perplexity says that Opus is the most advanced, compared to Sonnet. And finally, in the table in the blogpost, Opus isn't eve…

Opus has been stuck on 3.0, so Sonnet 3.5 is better for most things as well as cheaper.

> Opus has been stuck on 3.0, so Sonnet 3.5 is better

So for example, Perplexity is wrong here implying that Opus is better than Sonnet?

https://i.imgur.com/N58I4PC.png

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

#29

From the computer use video demo, that's a lot of API calls. Even though Claude 3.5 Sonnet is relatively cheap for its performance, I suspect computer use won't be. It's a very good idea that Anthropic upfront that it isn't perfect. And it's guaranteed that there will be a viral story where Claude will accidentally delete something important with it. I'm more interested in Claude 3.5 Haiku, particularly if it is inde…

Seemed like a reasonable amount of API calls. For a first public iteration this seems quite nice and a logical progression in tooling. UiPath has a $7bn market cap and thats only a single player in the industry of automation. If they can figure out the quirks this can be a game changer.

Re: Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

#30

I have been a paying ChatGPT customer for a long time (since the very beginning). Last week I've compared ChatGPT to Claude and the results (to my eye) were better, the output better structured and the canvas works better. I'm on the edge of jumping ship.

Claude is the daily driver. GPT-O1 for complicated tasks. For example, questions where linear reasoning is not enough like advanced rust ownership questions.
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