Anthropic said on Wednesday that the updated model, called Haiku 4.5, was about one-third the cost of Sonnet 4, one of its medium-sized models, and one-fifteenth the cost of its most advanced offering, Opus. The new Haiku model performed as well or better than Sonnet 4 on a range of tasks, including coding.
Traditional companies outside Silicon Valley were more likely to use AI if they had cheaper, yet still capable models to try, Mike Krieger, the company’s chief product officer, said in an interview. It also made it easier for firms to add more AI to their internal systems that might be used by hundreds or thousands of employees, he added.
“Often, there’s a lot of scale to that,” Krieger said. “Small models really help because they can be a more economical way of deploying into that.”
About 80 per cent of the company’s revenue comes from companies, an Anthropic representative said, adding that it had more than 300,000 enterprise customers that used Anthropic tools internally, for products or both.
Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate – a calculation of annual revenue extrapolated from the current sales pace – was almost US$7 billion, the person said.
