What Is Claude? A Simple Guide to Anthropic’s Model Family
Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI models for writing, analysis, reasoning, coding, image understanding, and tool use. Learn about its tiers, uses, and limitations.
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Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI models for writing, analysis, reasoning, coding, image understanding, and tool use. Learn about its tiers, uses, and limitations.
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Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and lowest-cost model for real-time tasks, coding, and sub-agents, with a 200,000-token context window.