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OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more

useful / Claude 2.1 doubles the number of tokens the chatbot can
interpret to 200,000 and gains beta support for third-party APIs.

By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written
news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.
Nov 21, 2023, 3:09 PM EST | 13 Comments / 13 New

Anthropic gives Claude more abilities. Image: Anthropic

While OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, there’s a new chatbot update
from Anthropic, the Google-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI
engineers who left over disagreements about the company’s increasingly
commercial direction as its Microsoft partnership went on.
Anthropic has announced that the latest update of its chatbot, Claude 2.1, can digest
up to 200,000 tokens at once for Pro tier users, which it says equals over 500 pages
of material.

Anthropic
@AnthropicAI · Follow

Our new model Claude 2.1 offers an industry-leading

200K token context window, a 2x decrease in
hallucination rates, system prompts, tool use, and
updated pricing.

Claude 2.1 is available over API in our Console, and is

powering our claude.ai chat experience.

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The company also says Claude will hallucinate — or lie — half as often as before,
and it can do things like search the web or use a calculator through customizable
tools. The chatbot also now supports custom, persistent instructions and has a new
test window for trying out prompts.

The 200,000-token feature doubles what Claude could handle before, and it’s a
significantly higher limit than the 32,000-token ceiling of the priciest version of
GPT-4. Anthropic calls this an “industry first” and says it enables the chatbot to
pore over uploads of entire codebases or works like the “Iliad.” The higher token
count is exclusive to the company’s Pro plan.

Anthropic also brought Claude a little closer to ChatGPT with the new beta tool use
feature. Users can now connect API tools, and Claude will pick the best one for the
job depending on the context. That includes using a calculator or searching the
web, and the company says users can ask for specific API calls using natural
language.

Finally, the company said it’s updated its developer console with a test window for
trying out new prompts and has added the ability to give Claude custom persistent
instructions. Like with GPT-4, this means you can customize the chatbot to
respond in specific ways or with specific personalities.

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