Tue. 02/25 – Claude 3.7 Sonnet
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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Summary
Anthropic releases its latest cutting-edge model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Would you tolerate ads inside your Excel spreadsheet if you could use Excel for free? Why some journalists are joining AI companies. And let me introduce you to “tiny teams” the new startup meme in Silicon Valley.
Links:
- Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want (TechCrunch)
- AI Startup Anthropic Finalizing $3.5 Billion Funding Round (WSJ)
- Microsoft Quietly Launched a Free Ad-Supported Office App, and No One Noticed (Beebom)
- Apple’s $500 Billion U.S. Investment Is Mostly Already in the Books (WSJ)
- Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI (NeimanLab)
- A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups (NYTimes)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, February 25th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Anthropic releases its latest cutting edge model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. |
| 0:13.6 | Would you tolerate ads inside your Excel spreadsheet if you could use Excel for free? |
| 0:18.4 | Why some journalists are joining AI companies, and let me introduce |
| 0:21.5 | you to Tiny Teams, the new startup meme in Silicon Valley. |
| 0:25.3 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.5 | Anthropic has released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended step-by-step thinking, and Claude, an agentic coding tool. |
| 0:43.5 | Here's everything you need to know, quoting TechCrunch. |
| 0:45.8 | Anthropic calls Claude 3.7 Sonnet the industry's first hybrid AI reasoning model because it's a single model that can give both real-time answers and more considered thought-out |
| 0:54.6 | answers to questions. Users can choose whether to activate the AI model's reasoning abilities, |
| 0:59.2 | which prompt Cloud 3.7 Sonnet to think for a short or long period of time. |
| 1:03.5 | The model represents Anthropics' broader effort to simplify the user experience around its AI products. |
| 1:08.2 | Most AI chatbots today have a daunting model picker that forces |
| 1:11.6 | users to choose from several different options that vary in cost and capability. Labs like Anthropic |
| 1:16.3 | would rather you not have to think about it. Ideally, one model does all the work. Cloud 3.7 Sonnet |
| 1:21.4 | is rolling out to all users and developers on Monday, Anthropics said, but only users paying |
| 1:25.5 | for Anthropics' premium Claude chatbot plans |
| 1:27.6 | will get access to the model's reasoning features. Free Claude users will get the standard |
| 1:31.9 | non-reasoning version of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which Anthropic claims outperforms its previous |
| 1:36.0 | frontier AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Yes, the company skipped a number, end quote. |
| 1:41.4 | And quoting the verge. The model costs the same to run as its predecessor 3.5 Sonnet |
| 1:45.8 | at $3 per million token inputs and $15 per million output tokens. While Claude still lacks |
| 1:52.7 | real-time web search like other models version 3.7's knowledge cutoff date of October |
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