Introducing Claude

After working for the past few months with key partners like NotionQuoraand DuckDuckGo in a closed alphawe’ve been able to carefully test out our systems in the wildand are ready to offer Claude more broadly so it can power crucialcutting-edge use cases at scale.

Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpfulhonestand harmless AI systems. Accessible through chat interface and API in our developer consoleClaude is capable of a wide variety of conversational and text processing tasks while maintaining a high degree of reliability and predictability.

Claude can help with use cases including summarizationsearchcreative and collaborative writingQ&Acodingand more. Early customers report that Claude is much less likely to produce harmful outputseasier to converse withand more steerable - so you can get your desired output with less effort. Claude can also take direction on personalitytoneand behavior.

We’re offering two versions of Claude today: Claude and Claude Instant. Claude is a state-of-the-art high-performance modelwhile Claude Instant is a lighterless expensiveand much faster option. We plan to introduce even more updates in the coming weeks. As we develop these systemswe'll continually work to make them more helpfulhonestand harmless as we learn more from our safety research and our deployments.

Partner Testimonials

We are excited to showcase how our partners are using Claude today. We chose these companies and products with care. We’re excited to support businesses and nonprofits that are empowering people with information and making them more productive in their professional and personal lives.

One of our key partnersQuora, has offered Claude to users through Poetheir AI Chat app. “Users describe Claude’s answers as detailed and easily understoodand they like that exchanges feel like natural conversation,” says Autumn BesselmanHead of People and Comms from Quora.

“Claude feels more conversational than ChatGPT,” says a happy Poe userwhile another says“I find Claude to be more interactive and creative in its storytelling.”

“I personally love the way the answers are presented and how in-depthyet simply presented they are,” says one user who was impressed by Claude’s combination of language skills and expertise.

We are especially interested in positive applications of AI that can help people achieve their goals. Juni Learninga leading provider of online education solutionsuses Anthropic to power their Discord Juni Tutor Botan online tutoring solution to help students achieve academic success. Vivian ShenCEO of Juni Learningsays“We evaluated Anthropic against competitorsand for our use case and implementation we chose to incorporate Claude based on its helpfulhigh-quality responses. It was important for us to deliver a conversational experience at the level of a true tutor or teacheras opposed to the surface-level answers we saw from the current state of other models. Across subjectsincluding math problems or understanding symbolism in critical readingincorporating Claude provided betterricher answers for our students’ learning.”

Claude is also boosting the productivity of people at work and school via its integration with Notion; Akshay KothariCo-Founder & COO of Notionsays“Anthropic and Notion share a common goal of helping individuals and enterprises leverage AI to increase productivity. Claude's uniquely creative writing and summarization abilities contribute to the development of our connected AI assistantNotion AI. Notion users can now work more efficiently and improve their writing skillsall within the Notion workspace.”

We’re working with partners to integrate Claude with sources of solidreal-time informationlike those found in search engines such as DuckDuckGo. “We're thrilled to be working with Anthropic on DuckAssistthe first Instant Answer in our search results to use natural language technology to generate answers to search queries using Wikipedia and other related sources,” says Steve FischerChief Business Officer at DuckDuckGo. “Anthropic has already been a great partnerworking closely with us to improve the quality of DuckAssist answers while also meeting our strict privacy requirements. We're looking forward to continuing this partnership.”

Information-finding can be even harder in a document-heavy space like the legal industry. One of the hardest problems in the legal domain is reading and understanding complex legal text. Robin AIa legal infrastructure businessis using Claude to re-think the future of contracts.

“We use Claude to evaluate particular parts of a contractand to suggest newalternative language that's more friendly to our customers. We've been working with these types of technologies since 2019and nothing has matched Claude's capabilities,” says Richard RobinsonCEO of Robin AI. “We've found Claude is really good at understanding language - including in technical domains like legal language. It's also very confident at draftingsummarisingtranslationsand explaining complex concepts in simple terms. Since deploying Claude in our productwe're seeing higher user engagementstronger user feedback and we're closing more deals.”

In addition to improving existing productswe are excited about the potential of AI to transform digital media. We are proud to partner with AssemblyAIan innovative AI company that is partnering with Anthropic to help power its platform of APIs that transcribe and understand audio data at scale. Dylan FoxFounder & CEO of AssemblyAIsays“We're thrilled to partner with a pioneering company like Anthropic whose commitment to AI integrity and research directly helps us ship more robustLLM-backed Generative AI and Conversation Intelligence capabilities to our customers faster. We look forward to seeing this partnership propel our AI initiatives forward.”

We’re excited about the potential applications Claude can power across industries. If you think you could use the power of AI to innovateimprove your offerings and better serve your customersplease request access to Claude and we’ll be in touch!