Artificial intelligence company founded by former members of OpenAI, Anthropic, has rolled out the latest iteration of its generative AI Chatbot, Claude 2, which comes with improved safety and coding capabilities.
The Claude 2 is an upgrade of the Claude 1.3, as Anthropic claims that the newly upgraded version is slightly better in math, coding, and reasoning, in addition to being able to construct longer replies.
According to reports, Claude 2 can process up to 100,000 tokens, roughly equal to 75,000 words in a single request. This represents a significant increase over the chatbot’s prior 9,000 token cap.
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The upgrade will see Claude 2 now able to respond in a more improved and contextual manner. Anthropic asserts that Claude 2’s behavior is easier to comprehend and easier to modify as necessary when compared to other models because of constitutional AI.
Speaking on the rollout of Claude 2, Anthropic CEO Daniela Amodei said,
“We have been focused on businesses, on making Claude as robustly safe as possible. We really feel that this is the safest version of Claude that we’ve developed so far, and so we’ve been very excited to get it into the hands of a wider range of both businesses and individual consumers.”
Claude 2 will initially only be available as a beta version to users in the U.S. and U.K., as Anthropic plans to expand availability in the coming months.
The improved chatbot model can also produce coherent responses of about 3 000 words, which is much longer than Claude 1.3’s limit of about 400 words. As a result, Claude can write much longer documents in response, including memos, letters, and stories all in one shot.
Unlike other Chatbots like Bard and Bing, Claude 2 isn’t connected to the internet and is trained on up-to-date data.
Claude 2 data includes updates in information from 2022 and early 2023, which means it has a lot more recent context about recent events than before. Its dataset is more recent than that of ChatGPT whose knowledge is only limited to 2021.
However, the company has advised users that the chatbot can still produce errors or generally be confused about topics that they might not be aware of. As a result, the team warned that Claude might still be prone to “confabulations” or “hallucinations” as chatbots can sometimes generate.
Additionally, Anthropic recently expanded Claude’s context window to around 75,000 words. This means that users can upload dozens of pages to the bot, or even an entire novel, for the bot to parse. So if they need a quick summary of a complicated and very long research paper, Claude 2 got them covered.
This feature will no doubt set it apart from other models that have much smaller limits, with ChatGPT, allowing a maximum of around 3,000 words.
Anthropic designed Claude’s large language model to address issues facing the generative AI market, as ChatGPT and other generative Al chatbots, are known to still produce incorrect answers, and bizarre conversational tangents.
With the rollout of a more enhanced Claude 2 version, Anthropic has intensified competition in the generative AI market, as different AI companies will seek to enhance their chatbots to even surpass that of Claude 2.