Claude 2, Anthropic’s ChatGPT competitor just launched. „It can essentially act as your new AI finance assistant. And it’s free to use!”

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence startup founded by former members of OpenAI. Claude 2 is their second-gen AI chatbot that’s cheaper, stronger, faster, can handle multiple PDFs, and supports longer conversations. It can essentially act as your new AI finance assistant.

„We are pleased to announce Claude 2, our new model. Claude 2 has improved performance, longer responses, and can be accessed via API as well as a new public-facing beta website, claude.ai. We have heard from our users that Claude is easy to converse with, clearly explains its thinking, is less likely to produce harmful outputs, and has a longer memory.

Anthropic has made improvements from their previous models on coding, math, and reasoning. „For example, our latest model scored 76.5% on the multiple choice section of the Bar exam, up from 73.0% with Claude 1.3. When compared to college students applying to graduate school, Claude 2 scores above the 90th percentile on the GRE reading and writing exams, and similarly to the median applicant on quantitative reasoning.” the company explains.

Think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant who can be instructed in natural language to help you with many tasks. The Claude 2 API for businesses is being offered for the same price as Claude 1.3. Additionally, anyone in the US and UK can start using our beta chat experience today.

The company increased the length of Claude’s input and output. Users can input up to 100K tokens in each prompt, which means that Claude can work over hundreds of pages of technical documentation or even a book. Claude can now also write longer documents – from memos to letters to stories up to a few thousand tokens – all in one go.

Claude 2 powers our chat experience, and is generally available in the US and UK. We are working to make Claude more globally available in the coming months. You can now create an account and start talking to Claude in natural language, asking it for help with any tasks that you like. Talking to an AI assistant can take some trial and error, so read up on our tips to get the most out of Claude.

„We are also currently working with thousands of businesses who are using the Claude API. One of our partners is Jasper, a generative AI platform that enables individuals and teams to scale their content strategies. They found that Claude 2 was able to go head to head with other state of the art models for a wide variety of use cases, but has particular strength for long form low latency uses.” according to the press release.

„We are really happy to be among the first to offer Claude 2 to our customers, bringing enhanced semantics, up-to-date knowledge training, improved reasoning for complex prompts, and the ability to effortlessly remix existing content with a 3X larger context window,” said Greg Larson, VP of Engineering at Jasper. „We are proud to help our customers stay ahead of the curve through partnerships like this one with Anthropic.”

Sourcegraph is a code AI platform that helps customers write, fix, and maintain code. Their coding assistant Cody uses Claude 2’s improved reasoning ability to give even more accurate answers to user queries while also passing along more codebase context with up to 100K context windows. In addition, Claude 2 was trained on more recent data, meaning it has knowledge of newer frameworks and libraries for Cody to pull from.

“When it comes to AI coding, devs need fast and reliable access to context about their unique codebase and a powerful LLM with a large context window and strong general reasoning capabilities,” says Quinn Slack, CEO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph. “The slowest and most frustrating parts of the dev workflow are becoming faster and more enjoyable. Thanks to Claude 2, Cody’s helping more devs build more software that pushes the world forward.”

„Claude 2 is basically Anthropic’s answer to OpenAI’s GPT-4:

– Claude 2 has 100K context. GPT-4 has 32K. So 3x more context.
– Claude 2 is 4-5x cheaper than GPT-4-32k.
– Claude 2’s knowledge cutoff is early 2023, while GPT-4 is late 2021. So more fresher knowledge.” says Linas Beliunas, Country Manager, Europe, and General Manager, Flutterwave Lithuania.

„Claude 2 literally killed every „ChatPDF” wrapper. You can easily upload large files (I chose an 80-page 2022 Apple annual report) and ask for a summary, key takeaways, provide financial projections (not 100% there yet), and more. It can essentially act as your new AI finance assistant. And it’s free to use!

But here comes the crazy part. You can import several documents into Claude 2 and ask about the relationship between the concepts found in each document. This is conceptual blending on steroids. Game-changer.” added Beliunas.