Issue 41 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet is 2x faster. Here is what to do with it.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is 2x faster. Here is what to do with it.

The past two weeks produced the biggest speed upgrade in AI history for working executives. Claude 3.5 Sonnet arrived June 20 with benchmark scores that beat every other frontier model on coding, graduate reasoning, and document analysis, all at half the compute cost of its predecessor and twice the speed.

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Issue 41

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What matters today

The past two weeks produced the biggest speed upgrade in AI history for working executives. Claude 3.

Format Weekly newsletter issue

Audience Executives using AI at work

Time 6 min read

Topic Claude 3.5 Sonnet is 2x faster. Here is what to do with it.

Key points

Mistral: Codestral Launch: Mistral released Codestral, a 22B-parameter model built for code generation that outperforms GPT-4 Turbo on several code benchmarks.
Amazon Bedrock: Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude 3.5 Sonnet, giving enterprise AWS customers access without a direct Anthropic contract.
Meta: LLaMA 3.1 Preview: Meta previewed LLaMA 3.1 with a 405B parameter open-source model. Final release expected end of July.

Welcome

This issue gives executives a clean scan of Claude 3.5 Sonnet is 2x faster. Here is what to do with it.. Start with the quick hits, then use the companion guides for the workflows worth testing this week.

Quick Hits

Top AI Updates

1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet: The Fastest Frontier Model for Executive AI Workflows

Why Claude 3.5 Sonnet's speed advantage changes how executives iterate during working sessions

2. Microsoft Teams Copilot: Setup Guide and ROI for AI Meeting Summaries

How to enable Teams Copilot meeting summaries for your organization in under 10 minutes

3. Gemini 1.5 Pro in Google Workspace: Using 1M Token Context for Business Documents

The General Counsel at a mid-size technology company manages 340 active vendor contracts. When a supplier dispute arises, finding the relevant clauses across the affected contracts takes a paralegal half a day of keyword searching and cross-referencing.

Pro Tip

A complete prompt workflow for first-pass contract review using Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Productivity Gem

A three-step workflow that converts Teams Copilot summaries into distributed action item accountability

Health Tip

How to extract key recovery metrics from your iPhone or Apple Watch without complex software.

This information is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your health routine.

Kids Tip

Kids create a hands-on AI project: Build a Teachable Machine Image Classifier With Your Kid. A parent or educator helps them build, test, and explain what the AI tool gets right and wrong.