Anthropic’s next major AI model could arrive within weeks

AI startup Anthropic is gearing up to release its next major AI model, according to a report Thursday from The Information.

The report describes Anthropic’s upcoming model as a “hybrid” model that can switch between “deep reasoning” and fast responses. The company will reportedly introduce a “sliding scale” alongside the model to allow developers to control costs, as the deep reasoning capabilities consume more computing.

Anthropic’s model, which could arrive within weeks, outperforms OpenAI’s o3-mini-high “reasoning” model on some programming tasks, according to the report. The model is also said to excel at analyzing large codebases and other business-related benchmarks.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei hinted at new models in an interview on Monday with TechCrunch’s Romain Dillet.

“We’re generally focused on trying to make our own take on reasoning models that are better differentiated,” Amodei told Dillet. “We’ve been a little bit puzzled by the idea that there are normal models and there are reasoning models and that they’re sort of different from each other.”