Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Claude 3 series of large language models (LLMs) that set new performance benchmarks on a variety of cognitive tasks. The Claude 3 series includes three sub-models, namely Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus, which provide different levels of intelligence, speed and cost options to meet the needs of various artificial intelligence applications. According to officials, the Claude 3 series…