> Developers making Office AI features found Anthropic's latest models performed better than OpenAI in automating tasks such as financial functions in Excel or generating Powerpoint presentations based on instructions, the report said, citing one of the two people involved in the effort.
> Microsoft will pay its cloud rival Amazon Web Services to access the Anthropic models, according to the report. AWS is one of Anthropic's largest shareholders.
Any folks here who integrate LLMs into their products have opinions on when to use Anthropic's models over OpenAI's?
A_D_E_P_T•5mo ago
In my experience, Anthropic's models may be slightly better for coding. (I think that GPT-5 Thinking/Pro are ahead, but I know that others disagree.) Where just about everything else is concerned, though, my impression is that they're way behind. They're particularly terrible at analyzing images. I recently gave GPT-5, o3, and Gemini 2.5 Pro an image analysis task (literally as simple as "describe this image"), and all of them passed the test with flying colors. I gave the exact same task to Opus 4.1 and it was spectacularly botched, twice.
So I might use Opus for coding and perhaps for agentic stuff, but I'd hesitate to use it for anything else.
al_borland•5mo ago
The way things have been going, it seems like the only right move is to make the products AI model agnostic, where any model could plugin. There is too much flux in this space, and even based on user preferences, to be tied too tightly to any one model or vendor.
consumer451•5mo ago
I used Vercel's ai sdk like everyone else, to try to stay agnostic. However, when I am actually working on a feature that uses an LLM API call, I find that each prompt might need tweaking specific to that model to get great results. That means if I switched models for that feature, I would likely have to that redo the prompting. Or, am I doing this all wrong?
consumer451•5mo ago
> Developers making Office AI features found Anthropic's latest models performed better than OpenAI in automating tasks such as financial functions in Excel or generating Powerpoint presentations based on instructions, the report said, citing one of the two people involved in the effort.
> Microsoft will pay its cloud rival Amazon Web Services to access the Anthropic models, according to the report. AWS is one of Anthropic's largest shareholders.
Any folks here who integrate LLMs into their products have opinions on when to use Anthropic's models over OpenAI's?
A_D_E_P_T•5mo ago
So I might use Opus for coding and perhaps for agentic stuff, but I'd hesitate to use it for anything else.
al_borland•5mo ago
consumer451•5mo ago