Key Takeaways
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Tuesday that Claude 3 Opus is available on its Amazon Bedrock artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models service.
- Claude 3 Opus is Amazon-backed Anthropic’s most capable AI model, which the company claims outperforms Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Alphabet’s Google Gemini Ultra.
- Claude 3 Opus on AWS Bedrock could help Amazon better compete with Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud, which both offer AI capabilities.
Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday announced that Claude 3 Opus, Anthropic’s most capable artificial intelligence (AI) model, is available on Amazon Bedrock, which could bolster the company’s standing as hyperscalers—including Amazon, Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google—work to solidify their positions amid the AI boom.
Anthropic previously announced the Claude 3 model family, which includes Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. The most capable model, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Alphabet’s Google Gemini Ultra in math, knowledge, and code, among other benchmarks, Anthropic said.
Opus, “the most intelligent Claude 3 model,” has “best-in-market performance on highly complex tasks” and “can navigate open-ended prompts and sight-unseen scenarios with remarkable fluency and human-like understanding, leading the frontier of general intelligence,” AWS said.
Claude 3 Opus is now available on Amazon Bedrock, which is “a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs)” through one application programming interface (API) and capacities to build generative AI applications for AWS’ enterprise customers.
Claude 3 Opus on AWS Bedrock could help Amazon better compete with Microsoft and Google. Microsoft’s Azure customers can access OpenAI models, while Google Cloud users can use Gemini 1.5 Pro in Vertex AI.
Amazon shares were little changed at $183.39 at 1:50 p.m. ET Tuesday. The stock has risen more than 22% since the start of 2024.