Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want

Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to. Anthropic calls Claude 3.7 Sonnet the industry’s first “hybrid AI reasoning model,” because it’s a single model that can give both real-time answers and more considered, “thought-out” answers to questions. Users can choose whether to activate the AI model’s “reasoning” abilities, which prompt Claude 3.7 Sonnet to “think” for a short or long period of time. The model represents Anthropic’s broader effort to simplify the user experience around its AI products. Most AI chatbots today have a daunting model picker that forces users to choose from several different options that vary in cost and capability. Labs like Anthropic would rather you not have to think about it — ideally, one model does all the work. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is rolling out to all users and developers on Monday, Anthropic said, but only people who pay for Anthropic ... Read full article.