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Anthropic has been killing it. I subscribe to both chatgpt pro and claude, but I spend probably 90% of my time using Claude. I usually only go back to open ai when I want another model to evaluate or modify the results.


I was worried how they'd do as it felt like Opus was very expensive compared to GPT-4o but with worse performance. They're now claiming to beat GPT-4o AND do it cheaper, that's impressive.


Same here. I said this somewhere else already, but honestly GPT4o feels worse than 4 to me. So that's what drove me over to using Claude more which lead to me discovering it is generally superior for most of my use cases.


a Kagi Ultimate subscription gets you access to both (plus others) for $25/mo


Perplexity too, which I've found the most useful for access to top-end AI models with a massive reduction in hallucinations.


This is only via API though. There is a level of magic that Claude.ai and ChatGPT bring to the table that makes it worthwhile.


I can't speak to any new features announced today but the API version of Claude has been superior in every way when paired with a more feature rich front end.


> when paired with a more feature rich front end.

what frontend are you talking about?


Something like Sillytavern let's you edit the AI output which isn't an option in the web version.

Sillytavern also supports prefills which is an API feature not allowed on the web version.

Editing the system prompt is also not permitted in the web version but should be doable in any third party front-end.

I also use Poe sometimes which doesn't have all those features but at least allows custom system prompts when using Claude.


This is only in the chat mode. You also don't get the full context limit and file uploads for those modes.




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