Anthropic, an AI startup, has launched Claude 3, a new suite of artificial intelligence models, which includes Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. These models have been reported to surpass the performance of OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini Ultra in various benchmark tests by 0.4%. Claude 3 Opus is highlighted as the most powerful among the three, with capabilities across reasoning, math, coding, multilingual understanding, and vision, and supports up to 200K tokens in context. The models also introduce multimodal support, allowing for interactions with photos and other media for the first time. Anthropic's release of Claude 3 marks a significant advancement in the generative AI landscape, intensifying the competition among leading tech companies. The models are now available, with Opus and Sonnet accessible via the Claude API in 159 countries, and Haiku expected to be released in the coming weeks. This development has been met with enthusiasm from the AI community, with many noting the potential of Claude 3 to power a wide range of applications, from live customer chats to auto-completion tasks. Notably, Claude-3 Opus is 2.5x more expensive than GPT-4 Turbo.