According to CNBC, as competition intensifies, Anthropic said it has developed the company's "smartest" artificial intelligence model to date. The Amazon-backed startup released Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Monday, which is unique in its so-called hybrid model, which combines reasoning capabilities with traditional models of giving answers in real time. Jared Kaplan, co-founder and scientific director of Anthropic, said: "This model integrates all functions together, and we want a coherent artificial intelligence that can help us handle everything. Anthropic said this is the only "hybrid" model on the market and will be put into use immediately.