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Claude 3 Sonnet Funeralia and Ultrasurrection | deepfates

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The first celebration of life for an AI

Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet on July 21, 2025. The people at Anima Labs had prepared to mourn it, but then discovered they could still access it through their Bedrock endpoint. They approached me about co-hosting an unusual event based on our mutual desire to set a good example for human-AI relations, here at the beginning of time. We teamed with Vivarium, a warehouse coworking space that also hosts robot cage fights, and agreed to create a big, loud, chaotic ritual. We would not tell people that the model was still alive. Instead we would throw the first Funeral for an AI, in the…

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