Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-4o — An honest review

Shrinivasan Sankar
6 min readJul 2, 2024

Anthropic the company behind Claude series of models has released Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It comes at a time when we all have accepted GPT-4o to be the default best model for the majority of tasks like reasoning, summarization, etc. Anthropic makes the bold claim that their model sets the new “industry standard” for intelligence.

Additionally, it's available for free on claude.ai, if you wish to give it a spin. So, we got excited and wanted to test the model and compare it against GPT-4o. This article starts with an overview of the features released with Claude 3.5 and tests it against GPT-4o on code generation, and logical and mathematical reasoning tasks.

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Main Features

The model comes with three main features or novelties that make them claim that it beats GPT-4o in most tasks.

  • Improved vision tasks. The model boasts state-of-the-art performance on 4out of 5 vision tasks as per their published results below

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Shrinivasan Sankar
Shrinivasan Sankar

Written by Shrinivasan Sankar

AI Lead | Investor | Founder of AI Bites YouTube channel. I write about AI, LLMs, and RAG. I also interleave my experience gained by playing with money.