Why Claude 3 Is Bad News for Microsoft Azure [Video]

AWS, a cloud market leader, has been facing stiff competition from Microsoft Azure in the past few months. The same goes for Google Cloud, which raised concerns about Microsoft’s monopolistic cloud computing practices.

The tussle in the cloud space is clearly visible in the recent cloud earnings from generative AI. In the fourth quarter of 2023, Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud division achieved $25.9 billion in sales, while AWS and Google Cloud recorded $24.2 billion and $9.2 billion, respectively. 

Now, AWS and Google Cloud’s generative AI pal and OpenAI’s rival, Anthropic, might have brought them back into the game. The company recently released the Claude 3 model family, which comprises Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. 

Claude 3 Opus, the strongest model, outperforms GPT-4on common benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval. It has been almost a year since GPT-4 was released, and this is the first time a model has surpassed it. Also, Claude 3 Sonnet, …