Claude AI is getting a major upgrade this week, but not the one we expected

Anthropic CEO teased in early January that Claude would get ChatGPT-like features in the future, like reasoning and internet search support. Reasoning models take more time to find an answer to a prompt, but they might offer better help than the base models. Web browsing for updated information is another key feature of genAI products like ChatGPT.

A few days ago, we saw a leak suggesting Claude's upgrade was imminent. Claude 4 might be released soon, with newly found Claude code indicating that reasoning support and internet search are part of the upgrade.

It turns out that Anthropic might be in the final stages of readying the Claude upgrade, but with a twist we didn't see coming. Anthropic isn't quite ready to move to the Claude 4 name, which would suggest a bigger upgrade. Instead, according to a brand-new leak, we're getting a Claude 3.7 model.

Claude 3.7 might be released later this week, with direct support from Amazon, which will provide the necessary cloud infrastructure. Then again, Amazon is a big investor in Anthropic, so any Claude upgrades are likely to run on Amazon infrastructure, at least in part.

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