Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic just fired a warning shot at OpenAI, DeepSeek and the entire AI industry with the launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a model that gives users unprecedented control over how much time an AI spends “thinking” before generating a response. The release, alongside the debut of Claude Code, a command-line AI coding agent, signals Anthropic’s aggressive push into the enterprise AI market — a push that could reshape how businesses build software and automate work. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Last month, DeepSeek stunned the tech world with an AI model that matched the capabilities of U.S. systems at a fraction of the cost, sending Nvidia’s stock down 17% and raising alarms about America’s AI leadership. Now Anthropic is betting that precise control over AI reasoning — not just raw speed or cost savings — will give it an edge. Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces a ‘t ... Read full article.