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Anthropic unveiled Claude 3.7 Sonnet this week, its newest AI model that puts all its capabilities under one roof instead of splitting them across different specialized versions.  The release marks a significant shift in how the company approaches model development, embracing a “do everything well” philosophy rather than creating separate models for different tasks, as OpenAI does. This isn’t Claude 4.0. Instead, it’s just a meaningful but incremental update to the 3.5 Sonnet version. The naming convention suggests the October release might have internally been considered Claude 3.6, though Anthropic never labeled it as such publicly. Enthusiasts and early testers have been pleased with Claude’s coding and agentic capabilities. Some tests confirm Anthropic’s claims that the model beats any other SOTA LLM in coding capabilities. However, the pricing structure puts Claude 3.7 Sonnet at a premium compared to market alternatives. API access costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens—substantially higher than competitive offerings from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The model is a much-needed update, however, what Anthropic has in capability, it lacks in features.  It cannot browse the web, cannot generate images, and doesn’t have the research features that OpenAI, Grok, and Google Gemini offer in their chatbots.  But life isn’t just about coding. We tested the model on different scenarios—probably leaning more towards the use cases a regular user would have in mind—and compared it against the best models in each field, including creative writing, political bias, math, coding, and more. Here is how it stacks up and our thoughts about its performance—but TL;DR, we were pleased. Creative writing: The king is back Claude 3.7 Sonnet just snatched back the creative writing crown from Grok-3, whose reign at the top lasted barely a week. In our creative writing tests—designed to measure how well these…

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