Anthropic’s New AI Model Lets Users Decide How Much It Reasons

Anthropic is releasing a new artificial intelligence model that lets users decide if they want a quick answer to a simple question or a more time-consuming response that mimics human reasoning — a novel approach that may help the AI startup stand out in a competitive landscape.

With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, users will be able to choose whether to have the AI system spend more or less time computing an answer, depending on the complexity of their query. The model rolled out on Monday to free and paid users, Anthropic said in a blog post, though nonpaying users will initially not be able ...