Anthropic has announced a significant update to its Claude AI assistant, which has several new enterprise-friendly capabilities.
Claude.ai Pro and Team users can now streamline their conversations by categorising them under Projects. This feature consolidates relevant discussions and knowledge into a singular, accessible location, effectively creating a convenient place to store and interact with data.
Additionally, it allows users to highlight their most impactful interactions with Claude, making them available for team members to view. Anthropic intends this innovative update to facilitate the cultivation of ideas, foster more strategic decision-making processes, and drive superior outcomes.
Anthropic’s blog on the subject wrote:
Our vision for Claude has always been to create AI systems that work alongside people and meaningfully enhance their workflows. As a step in this direction, Claude.ai Pro and Team users can now organize their chats into Projects, bringing together curated sets of knowledge and chat activity in one place—with the ability to make their best chats with Claude viewable by teammates.”
Anthropic says Projects empowers users to anchor Claude’s outputs with unique internal knowledge, encompassing style guides, codebases, interview transcripts, or previous projects. This context enrichment allows Claude to offer specialised assistance for various tasks, such as crafting emails in the marketing team’s style or generating SQL queries akin to a data analyst.
Anthropic also suggested users can set custom instructions for each Project, fine-tuning Claude’s responses to adhere to specific tones or perspectives, be it a particular role or industry. Projects aim to facilitate a quicker start and the ability to extend capabilities more broadly for any task.
The Projects feature on Claude.ai is now accessible to all Pro and Team subscribers, powered by Anthropic’s latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet release. Each project has a substantial 200,000 context windows, which Anthropic compares to a 500-page book. These windows enable users to incorporate all pertinent documents, code, and insights, augmenting Claude’s efficiency.
Claude’s New Artefacts Feature
Claude’s new Artefacts feature allows users to create various content analogous to the process in which Projects stores them.
Artefacts enhances user interaction with Claude by providing a visual and interactive space to see, edit, and collaborate on content generated by the AI assistant. Whether a user requests code snippets, text documents, graphics, diagrams, or website designs, Artefacts are displayed in a separate window alongside their chat, enriching the creative process.
For developers, Anthropic suggests that Artefacts improves the coding experience with Claude. It offers an expanded code window and live previews for front-end designs, simplifying the review process.
Amazon Completes $4 Bn Investment in AI Giant Anthropic
Amazon completed its $4 billion investment in Anthropic in March.
First announced in September, the collaboration intends to complement the expertise of both businesses to boost the safety of Gen AI, expedite the development of Anthropic’s future foundation models, and provide accessibility to AWS customers. Customers are leveraging Anthropic’s Claude AI on Amazon Bedrock to revolutionise user experiences, transform their businesses, and accelerate their Gen AI journeys.
As part of this strategic collaboration, Anthropic and AWS announced that Anthropic has selected AWS as its primary cloud provider for critical operations, including safety research and future model development.
Anthropic’s Other Investors
While Microsoft and OpenAI have built a close relationship in recent years, perhaps too close according to several antitrust regulatory bodies, Anthropic has received investment from several other prominent tech giants.
Last May, Zoom partnered with Anthropic to produce advanced and reliable AI systems.
The collaboration aimed to enhance Zoom’s federated approach to AI by integrating Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, into Zoom’s collaborative platform. The Zoom Contact Center was the first solution to incorporate Claude. Additionally, Zoom Ventures, Zoom’s startup investment arm, announced its investment in Anthropic.
Meanwhile, last October, Google invested $2 billion in Anthropic to accelerate AI innovation. Initially, $500 million was injected, with plans for an additional $1.5 billion over time. Prior, Google had invested hundreds of millions, securing a ten percent stake by April 2023. Notably, part of this includes cloud services. This signalled Google’s commitment to leveraging AI’s transformative potential across its products.
