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Gemini 1.5 made long context useful—but not free
Google introduced Gemini 1.5 on February 15, 2024. Gemini 1.5 demonstrated that a model could process extremely large context windows, including long documents, codebases, audio, and video. That opened workflows that previously depended...
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet made the mid-tier model the default
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet on June 21, 2024. Claude 3.5 Sonnet shifted attention away from the assumption that the flagship tier must always be the safest default. Anthropic positioned it as stronger than the previous top model...
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What Claude’s 2023 launch actually changed
Anthropic introduced Claude on March 14, 2023. Claude’s launch mattered less because it was “another chatbot” and more because Anthropic made safety behavior part of the product’s core story. The company positioned Claude as a general as...