Claude 4 is not what you think...

About this Video

• Video Title: Claude 4 is not what you think...
• Channel: Matthew Berman
• Speakers: Matthew Berman
• Duration: 13:03

Introduction

This video discusses the release of Anthropic's Claude 4, highlighting its shift in focus from chatbots to infrastructure for building advanced coding agents. The presenter details Claude 4's features, benchmarks, and pricing, comparing it to other leading models.

Key Takeaways

• Claude 4 (Opus and Sonnet): Anthropic released two versions of Claude 4: Opus and Sonnet, both hybrid models offering instant responses and extended thinking modes. Opus is marketed as the world's best coding model.
• Long Horizon Tasks: Claude 4 excels at complex tasks spanning minutes to hours, maintaining context exceptionally well.
• Parallel Tool Use: A unique feature of Claude 4 is its ability to use multiple tools concurrently, unlike sequential processing in other models. This includes tools like web search, drive search, Gmail, and calendar search, leveraging Anthropic's MCP framework.
• Focus Shift: Anthropic has pivoted from competing in the chatbot market to providing the infrastructure (via Claude Code and its SDK) for building robust coding agents. Claude 4 is now integrated into platforms like GitHub Copilot and Cursor.
• Benchmarks: While Claude 4 showed improvements in some benchmarks (e.g., software engineering, agentic tool use), others showed mixed results, with some tasks performing worse than previous versions. More thorough testing is needed.
• Pricing: The pricing for Claude 4 Opus is detailed, showing costs per million tokens for input and output. A 50% discount is available with batch processing.