Claude 2 vs Claude 3 Opus: Historical Progression
Claude 3 Opus superior. Claude 2 is a historical milestone worth understanding.
Claude 2
Anthropic's first publicly competitive release. 100K context when GPT-4 had 8K.
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Legacy systems that cannot migrate.
Full profile →Claude 3 Opus
The model that finally made the 'Claude is better than GPT-4' argument defensible.
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Any new deployment; Claude 3 Opus itself is superseded by 4.x.
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Both superseded by 4.x generation.