Context Window
2 milestones in AI history
ProductGenerative AI Revolution
Claude 3: Approaching Human-Level
Anthropic launched the Claude 3 family (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus), with Claude 3 Opus matching or exceeding GPT-4 on most benchmarks. It featured a 200K token context window, strong reasoning, nuanced instruction-following, and a 'personality' that users found distinctively thoughtful and careful.
Anthropic
ResearchGenerative AI Revolution
Gemini 1.5 Pro: Million-Token Context
Google released Gemini 1.5 Pro with a 1 million token context window (later extended to 2M) — able to process entire codebases, books, or hours of video in a single prompt. It could find a needle in a haystack across millions of tokens with near-perfect recall.
Google DeepMind