The AI startup Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI employees, has launched its chatbot Claude.
We’re excited about the potential applications Claude can power across industries. If you think you could use the power of AI to innovate and better serve your customers, get in touch! https://t.co/ACCttRoLRl
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) March 14, 2023
In terms of features, the tool resembles ChatGPT. It can provide summaries, answer questions, assist with writing tasks, and generate code. However the company says Claude is ‘less likely to produce harmful results’ and is ‘easier to interact with’.
Users can also tailor the bot’s tone, personality, and behavior.
Additionally, Claude does not have internet access. According to the developers, it is designed to ‘be autonomous’.
Anthropic said its aim is to develop an AI assistant that will be ‘useful, honest and harmless’.
In addition to the standard version of the chatbot, the startup announced Claude Instant — a cheaper, faster and lighter model than the full-featured counterpart.
The startup has already granted access to the service to some companies months before its launch, including Notion, Quora and DuckDuckGo. The latter recently announced a DuckAssist search tool based on Anthropic and OpenAI technologies.
App developers can use the API of both models. However, for now Claude is available to a limited number of people on the waitlist.
Earlier, Anthropic was backed by major tech companies. In February 2023 Google invested $300 million in the startup. In March the company attracted another $300 million from Spark Capital, and its valuation reached $4.1 billion.
On March 14, OpenAI unveiled the large multimodal GPT-4 model. On the same day, the company integrated the algorithm into ChatGPT.