What is Anthropic’s Claude and what is it capable of?

Claude is a large language model (LLM) built by Anthropic. It is used for summarization, search, creative and collaborative writing, Q&A, coding, and more. It is trained specifically to prioritize helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness (HHH), though its outputs may still contain bias, factual errors, and hallucinations.

Anthropic considered releasing Claude to the general public in spring 2022, but waited until March 2023, after the release of ChatGPT, with the stated aim of avoiding triggering an arms race. Anthropic has since been rolling the service out incrementally – Claude was initially only available for people in the US and UK, and has since gradually been made available to many other countries. It is also available through Anthropic’s partners.

Some important details about Claude are:

• Anthropic reports that they have made Claude more resilient to adversarial attacks using Constitutional AI and Moral Self-Correction.

• The model has no access to the internet when answering user prompts.

• It does not remember anything from prior message threads since its memory is cleared between threads.

• Its context window for input and output is about 200,000 tokens, which works out to about 70,000 words (enough to load the entire novel The Great Gatsby). This makes it useful as a personal assistant. The support page offers current information as the model continues to be updated.

• Claude 3.0 was trained on data up to August 2023. The model is constantly being updated and the support page offers the latest information.