Anthropic Launches AI Hybrid Reasoning Model and New Coding Assistant

AI startup Anthropic announced on Monday the launch of the first hybrid reasoning model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, alongside Claude Code, a new command-line tool designed to enhance AI-assisted coding. The new AI model can produce near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking that is visible to the user. “Claude 3.7 Sonnet shows particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development,” the company said in a blog post on Monday.

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Pricing and Availability of Claude 3.7 Sonnet

The Amazon and Google-backed startup said the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model is its most advanced and will be available on all Claude plans, including Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise. It is also available through the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

One of the key advancements in this release is the ability for API users to control the “thinking budget”, setting a limit on the number of tokens the model can use for reasoning. “This allows you to trade off speed (and cost) for quality of answer,” Anthropic said.

“With the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet, users can toggle ‘extended thinking mode’ on or off, directing the model to think more deeply about trickier questions,” the company said in a separate blog post highlighting Claude’s extended thinking capability.

In both standard and extended thinking modes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet maintains the same pricing as its predecessor at USD 3 per million input tokens and USD 15 per million output tokens, including thinking tokens.

Furthermore, the company said the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model outperformed competitors in real-world coding tasks, with companies such as Cursor, Cognition, Vercel, Replit, and Canva reporting its ability to generate production-ready code with minimal errors.

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