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Written by AI from the official notes. Check them for exact details.Claude Sonnet 3.7 has been launched with enhanced response capabilities and vision support added to Claude Haiku 3.5.
- Claude Sonnet 3.7 offers near-instant and step-by-step response options.
- Vision support added to Claude Haiku 3.5 for image analysis.
- Improved token-efficient tool use implementation for better performance.
- Default temperature in Console changed from 0 to 1 for new prompts.
- Updated tools now operate independently from the computer use system prompt.
Why it matters: Users of Claude models should care for improved performance and new capabilities in their AI interactions.
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- We've launched Claude Sonnet 3.7, our most intelligent model yet. Claude Sonnet 3.7 can produce near-instant responses or show its extended thinking step-by-step. One model, two ways to think. Learn more about all Claude models in Models overview.
- We've added vision support to Claude Haiku 3.5, enabling the model to analyze and understand images.
- We've released a token-efficient tool use implementation, improving overall performance when using tools with Claude. Learn more in Tool use with Claude.
- We've changed the default temperature in the Console for new prompts from 0 to 1 for consistency with the default temperature in the API. Existing saved prompts are unchanged.
- We've released updated versions of our tools that decouple the text edit and bash tools from the computer use system prompt: *
bash_20250124: Same functionality as previous version but is independent from computer use. Does not require a beta header. *text_editor_20250124: Same functionality as previous version but is independent from computer use. Does not require a beta header. *computer_20250124: Updated computer use tool with new command options including "hold\_key", "left\_mouse\_down", "left\_mouse\_up", "scroll", "triple\_click", and "wait". This tool requires the "computer-use-2025-01-24" anthropic-beta header. Learn more in Tool use with Claude.