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Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to the pricier Opus model series

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which outperforms its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and surpasses the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. The company noted the model scores far below government-blocked models on cybersecurity tasks, a likely signal amid ongoing debate.

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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which beats its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and even edges past the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. Anthropic is also quick to point out that the model scores far below the models the US government currently has blocked when it comes to cybersecurity tasks, a likely deliberate signal given the ongoing debate.

The article Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to the pricier Opus model series appeared first on The Decoder.

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