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Deploy Meta Llama 3.1 405B on Google Cloud Vertex AI
Hugging Face published a guide detailing how to deploy Meta's Llama 3.1 405B model on Google Cloud Vertex AI. The post covers infrastructure setup, serving configuration, and integration patterns for running the large open-weights model in a managed cloud environment. This reflects the growing ecosystem of tooling and cloud partnerships enabling enterprise deployment of frontier open-weights models.
Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet reach general availability on Google Cloud Vertex AI
Anthropic announced general availability of Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, with Claude 3 Opus to follow in coming weeks. The deployment gives enterprise customers access to Claude models within their existing Google Cloud environment, with associated data governance and security benefits. Quora's Poe app is cited as an early adopter, reporting millions of daily messages exchanged via Claude-based bots.
Anthropic Expands Partnership with Google and Broadcom for Multi-Gigawatt TPU Compute Capacity
Anthropic has signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity expected to come online starting in 2027, representing the company's largest compute commitment to date. The announcement coincides with Anthropic reporting run-rate revenue surpassing $30 billion, up from ~$9 billion at end of 2025, and the number of enterprise customers spending over $1M annually doubling to 1,000+ in under two months. The compute will be predominantly US-sited, extending Anthropic's November 2025 $50B American infrastructure commitment. Anthropic continues to operate across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, with Amazon remaining its primary cloud and training partner.
Anthropic Introduces Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 with Leading Coding Benchmarks and Agent Capabilities
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, positioning Opus 4 as the world's best coding model with 72.5% on SWE-bench and 43.2% on Terminal-bench, and Sonnet 4 at 72.7% on SWE-bench. Both models are hybrid (near-instant + extended thinking), support extended thinking with tool use in beta, parallel tool execution, and improved memory via local file access. Alongside the models, Anthropic is launching Claude Code as generally available with GitHub Actions, VS Code, and JetBrains integrations, plus four new API capabilities: code execution tool, MCP connector, Files API, and one-hour prompt caching. Pricing is unchanged from prior Opus and Sonnet tiers ($15/$75 and $3/$15 per million tokens respectively), with availability on Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Mistral Large 2 (123B): New Frontier Model with 128k Context, Multilingual and Code Capabilities
Mistral AI releases Mistral Large 2, a 123-billion-parameter model with a 128k context window, supporting 80+ coding languages and over a dozen natural languages. The model claims competitive performance with GPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus, and Llama 3 405B on code generation, reasoning, and multilingual benchmarks, while targeting cost-efficient single-node inference. Weights are available under a Mistral Research License for non-commercial use, with a commercial license required for self-deployment. The model is accessible via Mistral's la Plateforme API (mistral-large-2407), HuggingFace, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Snowflake and Anthropic Announce $200M Multi-Year Partnership for Agentic AI in Enterprise
Anthropic and Snowflake have expanded their strategic partnership into a multi-year, $200 million agreement to deploy Claude models and AI agents across Snowflake's 12,600+ global enterprise customers via Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure. The deal centers on agentic AI capabilities including Snowflake Intelligence (powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5), Cortex AI Functions supporting multimodal queries, and Cortex Agents for multi-step data reasoning, with claimed >90% accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks. Snowflake customers already process trillions of Claude tokens per month through Cortex AI, and the partnership targets regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, and life sciences. Claude Code is also deployed internally across Snowflake's engineering organization.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 with Enhanced Coding, Vision, and Cyber Safeguards
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, a general-availability model positioned as a meaningful improvement over Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, long-horizon agentic tasks, and vision capabilities including higher image resolution. The model is notably the first to receive new cybersecurity safeguards developed in response to Project Glasswing, with automatic detection and blocking of prohibited cyber uses and a new Cyber Verification Program for legitimate security professionals. Opus 4.7 is available across Claude products, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry at the same pricing as Opus 4.6 ($5/$25 per million input/output tokens). The release is explicitly positioned below Claude Mythos Preview in overall capability, serving as a testbed for safety mechanisms before broader deployment of Mythos-class models.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code: Anthropic's First Hybrid Reasoning Model and Agentic Coding Tool
Anthropic has released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, described as their most capable model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, capable of operating in both standard and extended thinking modes within a single unified model. The model achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench Verified and TAU-bench, with particular strength in coding and front-end web development. Alongside the model, Anthropic is launching Claude Code in limited research preview, a command-line agentic coding tool that can read/edit files, run tests, and push to GitHub. Pricing remains unchanged at $3/M input and $15/M output tokens, with availability across Claude.ai plans, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Codestral 25.01: Mistral AI Releases Updated Coding Model with 2x Speed and Improved FIM Performance
Mistral AI has released Codestral 25.01, a significant upgrade to its Codestral coding model featuring a more efficient architecture and improved tokenizer that generates code approximately 2x faster than its predecessor. The model claims state-of-the-art performance for fill-in-the-middle (FIM) tasks across sub-100B parameter models, with a 256k context window and support for 80+ programming languages. Benchmarks show improvements over Codestral 2405 and competitive or superior results against DeepSeek Coder V2 lite and DeepSeek Coder 33B on HumanEval and FIM metrics. The model is available via Mistral's API, IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains via Continue), and for on-premises/VPC deployment, with cloud availability on Vertex AI and Azure AI Foundry.
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first model in its Claude 3.5 family, claiming it outperforms Claude 3 Opus and competitor models on GPQA, MMLU, and HumanEval benchmarks while operating at twice the speed and mid-tier pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens). The model features a 200K context window, improved vision capabilities, and an internal agentic coding evaluation score of 64% versus 38% for Opus. Alongside the model, Anthropic introduces Artifacts on Claude.ai, a dedicated workspace for real-time editing of AI-generated content. The model was pre-deployment evaluated by the UK AI Safety Institute and assessed at ASL-2.
Mistral Small 3.1: Multimodal, 128k Context, Apache 2.0 Open-Weight Model
Mistral AI releases Mistral Small 3.1, a ~24B parameter model with multimodal understanding, 128k token context window, and claimed best-in-class performance among small models, outperforming Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini on text, multimodal, and multilingual benchmarks. The model runs on a single RTX 4090 or 32GB RAM Mac at 150 tokens/second and is released under Apache 2.0 license with both base and instruct checkpoints. It is available on HuggingFace, Mistral's La Plateforme API, and Google Cloud Vertex AI, with NVIDIA NIM and Azure AI Foundry support coming soon. The release targets enterprise and on-device use cases including document verification, agentic workflows, and domain fine-tuning.
Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 4.5: Near-Frontier Performance at $1/$5 per Million Tokens
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, a small model priced at $1/$5 per million input/output tokens that delivers coding performance comparable to Claude Sonnet 4 at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed. The model surpasses Sonnet 4 on computer use tasks and achieves 90% of Sonnet 4.5's performance on agentic coding evaluations, running 4-5x faster than Sonnet 4.5. Notably, Haiku 4.5 is classified under ASL-2 safety standards—less restrictive than the ASL-3 applied to Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1—and is described as Anthropic's safest model by automated alignment metrics. It is available via the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Claude Opus 4.1 Released with 74.5% SWE-bench Verified Score
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.1, an incremental upgrade to Claude Opus 4 focused on agentic tasks, coding, and reasoning. The model achieves 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified (without extended thinking) and shows notable gains in multi-file code refactoring and large-codebase debugging. It is available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, and via API on Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI at the same price as Opus 4. Anthropic notes substantially larger model improvements are planned for the coming weeks.
Anthropic introduces computer use capability, upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic announced three major developments: an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with significant coding improvements (SWE-bench Verified rising from 33.4% to 49.0%, surpassing all publicly available models including reasoning models), a new Claude 3.5 Haiku that matches Claude 3 Opus performance at Haiku-tier speed, and a public beta of 'computer use' — a capability allowing Claude to control computers by viewing screens, moving cursors, clicking, and typing. Computer use is available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI, with early adopters including Replit, The Browser Company, and Cognition. Both safety institutes (US AISI and UK AISI) conducted pre-deployment testing, and the model was assessed as remaining within ASL-2 under Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy.
Anthropic and Infosys Collaborate to Build AI Agents for Telecommunications and Regulated Industries
Anthropic and Infosys have announced a collaboration to develop enterprise AI solutions targeting telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. The partnership integrates Claude models and Claude Code with Infosys Topaz to build agentic AI systems capable of handling multi-step tasks such as compliance reviews, claims processing, and code generation in regulated environments. A secondary focus is legacy system modernization, using the combined tooling to reduce migration costs. Anthropic also highlights India as its second-largest Claude.ai market and positions Infosys as an early partner in its expanded India presence.
Mistral Medium 3: Frontier-Class Performance at 8x Lower Cost
Mistral AI has released Mistral Medium 3, a new enterprise-focused language model priced at $0.4/$2 per million input/output tokens. The model claims to achieve 90%+ of Claude Sonnet 3.7's benchmark performance while undercutting cost leaders like DeepSeek v3, and outperforming open models including Llama 4 Maverick. It supports hybrid, on-premises, and in-VPC deployment on as few as four GPUs, and is available immediately on Mistral La Plateforme and Amazon SageMaker, with additional cloud platforms coming soon. The announcement also teases an upcoming large open-weights model release.
Anthropic appoints Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan and announces Tokyo office hiring plans
Anthropic has appointed Hidetoshi Tojo, formerly Japan Country Manager at Snowflake and a veteran of Google Cloud Japan and Microsoft, as its Head of Japan. The company plans to officially open its first Asia office in Tokyo in the coming months and expand local hiring. Existing Japanese enterprise customers include Rakuten, NRI, and Panasonic. The Japan HQ will support partnerships with businesses, policymakers, and platform partners including Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex.
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, fastest and most affordable model in the Claude 3 family
Anthropic released Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Claude 3 lineup, processing 21K tokens per second for prompts under 32K tokens. The model is positioned for enterprise workloads requiring high throughput and low cost, with pricing enabling analysis of 400 Supreme Court cases or 2,500 images for one dollar. Haiku is available via the Claude API, Claude Pro on claude.ai, and Amazon Bedrock, with Google Cloud Vertex AI support forthcoming.