OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful

Whereas OpenAI is in the midst of an existential disaster, there’s a brand new chatbot replace from Anthropic, the Google-backed AI startup based by former OpenAI engineers who left over disagreements in regards to the firm’s more and more business course as its Microsoft partnership went on.

Anthropic has introduced that the newest replace of its chatbot, Claude 2.1, can digest as much as 200,000 tokens without delay for Professional tier customers, which it says equals over 500 pages of fabric.

The corporate additionally says Claude will hallucinate — or lie — half as usually as earlier than, and it may do issues like search the online or use a calculator via customizable instruments. The chatbot additionally now helps customized, persistent directions and has a brand new check window for making an attempt out prompts.

The 200,000-token function doubles what Claude might deal with earlier than, and it’s a considerably increased restrict than the 32,000-token ceiling of the priciest model of GPT-4. Anthropic calls this an “business first” and says it permits the chatbot to pore over uploads of whole codebases or works just like the “Iliad.” The upper token rely is unique to the corporate’s Professional plan.

Anthropic additionally introduced Claude a bit of nearer to ChatGPT with the brand new beta device use function. Customers can now join API instruments, and Claude will choose the most effective one for the job relying on the context. That features utilizing a calculator or looking out the online, and the corporate says customers can ask for particular API calls utilizing pure language.

Lastly, the corporate mentioned it’s up to date its developer console with a check window for making an attempt out new prompts and has added the flexibility to present Claude customized persistent directions. Like with GPT-4, this implies you may customise the chatbot to reply in particular methods or with particular personalities.