Anthropic, an innovative artificial intelligence startup backed by Alphabet and Amazon.com, has announced the launch of its latest chatbot technology for businesses on Wednesday. The San Francisco-based firm has released a family of artificial intelligence models called Claude 3 in March, which it claims outperforms competitors such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.
Anthropic has introduced an app for Apple’s iPhones that will offer Claude 3 to businesses for $30 per user per month, with a minimum of 5 users required to sign up. This move puts Anthropic in direct competition with OpenAI, which is also selling a similar plan aimed at businesses at the same rate. However, Anthropic’s enterprise technology push could also lead to competition with its backers Google and Amazon, who are also vying to capture business spending on AI.
Claude 3’s standout feature is its ability to ingest large amounts of data – equivalent to the length of two books – and accurately summarize, analyze or extract a single piece of information from it. The technology can be utilized by finance teams for generating investment reports, engineering teams working on extensive lines of code or sales teams collaborating on strategies to secure a major client.
Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s president, explained in an interview, “Claude is particularly adept at processing a combination of structured and unstructured data. You can provide a chart or a set of documents like PDFs or Slack exchanges and ask Claude to summarize and provide key highlights or information related to specific topics such as upcoming product launches or recent earnings reports.”
