The start-up Anthropic, in which Google has invested almost 400 million dollars, launches Claude, its chatbot powered by artificial intelligence. The company says it’s easier to converse with and “less likely to produce harmful results.”
Last February we learned that Google had invested close to 400 million dollars in Anthropic, a start-up specialized in artificial intelligence. On March 14, he released Claude, a chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The opportunity to respond to the same-day announcement of GPT-4, a major update to the OpenAI language model. In addition, Google announced automatic AI text generation features for Gmail and Google Docs, but also Bard, its own language model.
Anthropic lands with Claude in the market
As Claude’s announcement article indicates, Anthropic has been working for several months with other big digital companies, including Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo. All have also introduced artificial intelligence features in recent months. Anthropic says it’s ready today for Claude to be available. This chatbot is defined as “a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research on training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems.»
After working over the last few months with key partners such as @NotionHQ, @Quoraand @Pato Duck to win, we have been able to carefully test our systems in the wild. We are now opening up access to Claude, our AI assistant, to drive businesses at scale. pic.twitter.com/m0QFE74LJD
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) March 14, 2023
Anthropic offers businesses two offerings: Claude and Claude Instant. The first is the most efficient model, while the second is a “lighter, cheaper and much faster option.The start-up has set up a waiting list to be able to test this new chatbot and plans for Claude to play Monet (have you got it?) through a specific API.
What can this umpteenth chatbot be used for?
Unlike many other chatbots, such as the new Bing, the You conversational agent, or Snapchat’s My AI, Claude is not based on GPT-3.5 or GPT-4. Among the uses imagined by Anthropic is “summaries, research, creative and collaborative writing, Q&A, coding, and more“. In addition, the interface resembles that of ChatGPT in several points: we have a text field, a response field, the management of various conversations on the left of the screen, and we can react to responses with a thumbs up or down.
Anthropic also details Claude’s uses in particular services. This is the case of Quora with Poe, its online chat application. AI is also built into Notion for productivity features. For Notion’s co-founder and COO, “Claude’s creative writing and synthesis skills have contributed to the development of our connected assistant, Notion AI.The latter now allows you to summarize notes, improve the writing style, translate, lengthen a text, etc.
For its part, DuckDuckGo uses Claude to offer text summaries when you ask a question in the search bar. Last example, that of Robin AI: it is a legal infrastructure company. Anthropic says it uses Claude to redesign legal contracts: AI can “write, summarize, translate and explain complex concepts in simple terms. Since we’ve implemented Claude in our product, we’re seeing increased user engagement.says Richard Robinson, CEO of the company.
A chatbot that wants to stand out from ChatGPT and others
The competitive advantage that Anthropic poses for their model is the fact that Claude would be “much less likely to produce harmful results, easier to talk to, and easier to direct, allowing you to get the desired result with less effort“, according to the first comments from the company’s customers. The statement adds that “Claude can also find his bearings on personality, tone, and demeanor.»
Future updates are planned in the coming weeks, and Anthropic wants to provide an update on the reliability of their language model. The startup is based on the fact that he wants to make Claude increasingly honest, harmless, and confident about deployments.
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