
Top stories today:
- Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, hybrid AI model
- Elonās Grok global daily visits hit 4.5M days after Grok 3 debut
- Bitcoin falls below $90K as crypto selloff accelerates
- DOGE said to use AI to evaluate federal workersā weekly submissions
- Perplexity teases web browser Comet
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1. Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, hybrid AI model to take on OpenAI, DeepSeek
Claude 3.7 Sonnet surpassed OpenAIās o1 and o3-mini, and DeepSeek R1 on the SWE-bench verified, per Anthropic:
Claude 3.7 Sonnetās comparison with o3 and Grok 3 has yet to appear.
$3/M input and $15/M output token price, vs. o3-miniās $1.10/M input and $4.40/M output, and DeepSeek R1ās $0.55/M input, $2.19/M output price.
Extended thinking mode to switch between reasoning and near-instant responses.
Available across all Claude plans and through the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloudās Vertex AI.
Thinking mode is not a part of the free tier, though.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet has successfully defeated 3 PokƩmon gym leaders in the Game Boy classic, PokƩmon Red
Claude Code tool has been released in limited access to offer agentic coding
Aimed at test-driven development, debugging complex issues, and large-scale refactoring.

Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and MGX are said to be part of the new round.
$1.2B annualized revenue was recently achieved.
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3. Elonās Grok global daily visits hit 4.5M days after Grok 3 debut

+376% in Grok.com daily visits in the U.S. to 900K.
+260% in U.S. DAUs on the Grokās app last week.
Global DAUs 5xād week-on-week.











