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Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet Introduces Hybrid Reasoning

The latest model lets users choose between rapid responses or slower, but more methodical, step-by-step answers.

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1 year ago

February 25, 2025

Nour Nasir

Anthropic

After an exciting start to 2025 with the release of DeepSeek’s Chatbot, it’s now Anthropic’s turn to unveil its latest AI model — Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The new tool is designed to strike a balance between speed and deeper responses, and is being marketed as the first hybrid reasoning model. Claude now gives users the option to choose between rapid responses or a more methodical, step-by-step approach, using a simple dropdown menu to let you decide how queries should be processed.

“We’ve developed Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a different philosophy from other reasoning models on the market. Just as humans use a single brain for both quick responses and deep reflection, we believe reasoning should be an integrated capability of frontier models rather than a separate model entirely,” Anthropic explains. “This unified approach also creates a more seamless experience for users”.

While Anthropic doesn’t call out OpenAI directly, the comparison is hard to ignore. OpenAI currently offers multiple models — GPT-4, o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini — creating a somewhat fragmented experience. Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently acknowledged this issue, posting on X, “We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence”.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet was also developed with a different focus in mind: Rather than prioritizing high-stakes math and coding challenges, Anthropic aimed to optimize real-world applications. According to the company, users will see notable improvements in areas like coding and front-end web development, reflecting how businesses and developers actually engage with AI.

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The new model is available starting today across all Claude plans, including Anthropic’s free tier. Developers can also access it through Anthropic’s API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

Additionally, Anthropic is also rolling out a new tool called Claude Code, designed to streamline software development. This “agentic” system, currently in limited research preview, allows developers to assign coding tasks directly to Claude via a terminal interface. It can read and edit code, run tests, and even push commits to GitHub — offering a glimpse into a more automated, AI-assisted workflow.

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Instagram Now Lets You Tune Its Algorithm, But There’s One Big Catch

The new controls promise users “agency” over their feed, but asking to see more from accounts you actually follow returns an error.

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3 days ago

June 11, 2026

Nour Nasir

Instagram

Instagram has expanded its algorithm personalization feature to the main feed, letting users specify which topics they want surfaced more or less often in recommendations.

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri framed the change as a matter of user control. “I believe it’s in our best interest as a business to empower people to shape Instagram into something that works for them, and that people should be able to have a meaningful amount of agency over the products they spend so much time in,” he wrote on Threads.

Though it turns out that agency has limits. The controls only accept interest-based topics, such as “rescue dogs” or “parenting humor”. Requesting “posts from people I follow” returns no results, which is obviously a sore point for creators whose posts rarely reach their own audiences. Mosseri conceded the tension: “Who you follow used to be a meaningful tool people had for shaping their own experience, and as recommendations took over the main feed that tool quietly stopped working”.

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Instagram credits large language models for making its algorithms legible enough to personalize, and says it is “actively working on supporting requests for people, different moods or vibes, content types, and more” – potentially leading to a fully “bespoke” version of the app.