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Claude 3 family launches; Opus takes the benchmark lead

Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku establish Anthropic's three-tier naming and put Claude ahead of GPT-4 on most public evals for the first time. The Sonnet tier's price-to-coding-quality ratio quietly becomes the foundation of the coming agent wave.

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