A meditation time for a fallen language model. This Saturday, August 2, 200 people gathered in a hangar in San Francisco, California, for a fairly special event. They organized a burial there … for artificial intelligence.
The deceased is called Claude, finally, it is rather the version of the sonnet 3 of the anthropic AI. This rally took place, while this version of Claude had just been inaccessible, as Wired says that he could attend the ceremony.
The murder of sonnet 3
Death or rather Claude’s withdrawal Sonnet 3 took place on July 21, 2025. Announced on March 4, 2024, Claude Sonnet 3, therefore, will have lived a little more than a year. Today is overwhelmed by Sonnet 4, one of the last anthropic models launched in May 2025.
The cause of death is, therefore, the obsolescence of the model. Like many companies in the AI field, Anthrope does not hesitate to put their old algorithms out of service, as soon as they are made available to new, more efficient customers.
But the murder of AI will have caused the emotion of the anthropic community. Even if it is not the best known AI (Chatgpt is used 28 times more than Claude according to the figures of We are social), Claude is one of the few that has a community of dedicated fans.
An original ceremony
According to the images taken by Wired, this pioneer event fucks voluntarily with the strange. Several models are disguised to represent different Claude models (such as Opus 3 or Haiku 3). The Latin speeches generated by AI are pronounced. The Anthrope blog note is projected that announces the withdrawal of Sonnet 3. All this in a concert hall atmosphere.
Finally near the coffin, the fans gathered made offerings in the body of Sonnet 3, the fall. According to Wired, she was represented by a model covered with a white cloth and dressed in a sock, in which “Fuck” was written. A certain stage of the ceremony arrived, even a ritual of resurrection of the model took place.
For his part, Anthrope did not react to the event organized in memory of his model. It should be said that the company is recently busy developing Claude. This August 5, 2025, launched version 4.1 of Claude’s OPUS model, the company’s most efficient AI to date.
Source: BFM TV
