Anthropic has officially rolled out its Claude 3.5 Haiku model to all users through the Claude chatbot on the web and mobile apps, as sighted by AI power users on X. Previously limited to developers accessing it via Anthropic’s API following its launch in October 2024, this smaller, faster model has garnered attention for its ability to outperform larger models on key benchmarks while maintaining a competitive price point. According to the third-party benchmarking organization Artificial Analysis, Claude 3.5 Haiku “has a lower latency compared to average, taking 0.80s to receive the first token (TTFT),” yet “is slower compared to average, with a output speed of 65.1 tokens per second.” The release — which hasn’t been officially announced — comes on the heels of major updates from Anthropic’s AI rivals OpenAI and Google, which have also shipped new models to general availability in their chatbots as the year winds down, namely OpenAI’s o1 and o1-mini models and Google’s Gemini 2. The question for Anthropic is whether customers will be impressed enough with Claude 3.5 Haiku’s performance to sign up for its Pro tier — or to continue using it instead of some of these other advanced and fast rivals.

Full story : Anthropic’s fastest model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, now generally available.