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Anthropic releases Claude 3 Opus and Sonnet

Anthropic introduced the Claude 3 family and made Opus and Sonnet available through Claude and its API.

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Haiku was announced for later availability.

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Claude 3 family launch and availability

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Published: 3/4/2024
Source checked: 9/21/2026

Revision 1 / Reviewed 9/21/2026

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