Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) vs LLaMA 3.1
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) | Meta LLaMA 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Meta |
| Release date | Oct 22 2024 | Jul 23 2024 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 14% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 49% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 3.1 shipped 91 days before Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) | |
Which is better: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) or LLaMA 3.1?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) and LLaMA 3.1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 3.1 shipped 91 days before Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded), so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) is proprietary, while LLaMA 3.1 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) and LLaMA 3.1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) was released by Anthropic on Oct 22 2024.
LLaMA 3.1 was released by Meta on Jul 23 2024.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 3.1 is an open weight model released by Meta.
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