Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7 Sonnet: A Hybrid AI Model for Real-Time and Reasoning Tasks

Anthropic has launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a new AI model designed to provide both real-time and reasoned answers. This "hybrid" model allows users to activate reasoning abilities, prompting the AI to "think" for varying durations. It's available to premium Claude users, while free users get a standard version that outperforms Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. The company also released Claude Code, an agentic coding tool for developers. Anthropic is positioning itself as a leader in AI innovation with this release.