Claude 3.5 Sonnet Released
Narrative
Improved Sonnet. Outperforms Opus 3 on many tasks. Better coding. Artifacts feature. Same pricing.
Reality
Benchmarks excellent. Coding capability leap. Artifacts innovative. Became most popular Claude model. Opus users migrated.
Implication
Mid-tier optimization strategy validated. Artifacts UI innovation. Coding developer preference. Price/performance optimal.