Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Turbo to cut AI inference costs by 40 percent

Anthropic unveiled Claude 3.5 Turbo, its newest large language model offering 40% lower inference costs and 25% faster response time compared with previous versions. The update enhances tool-use, coding, and long-context reasoning performance while improving cost efficiency for enterprise deployments. Anthropic said the model will be integrated across Amazon Bedrock and other cloud providers. Analysts noted the move pressures rivals like OpenAI and Google to deliver similar cost-effective models as enterprise AI adoption pivots toward scalable, high-efficiency inference.