New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Amazon-backed Anthropic has launched its latest language model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, taking on the competition from ChatGPT, DeepSeek and others and even going one better with the launch of the first hybrid reasoning model. Anthropic took its first steps into AI agents with a new tool for developers called Claude Code.

Notably, Claude has shifted away from the traditional narrative of having a pre-trained model and a reasoning model independent of each other. Instead, the Dario Amodei led company has integrated the reasoning model alongside the frontier model, which means that users can just ask the chatbot when they want it to think longer before answering, essentially triggering the reasoning mode where it will self...