Releasing Claude Instant 1.2
Claude Instant 1.2 is a faster, lower-cost model with improved math, coding, reasoning, and safety inherited from Claude 2.
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Claude Instant 1.2 is a faster, lower-cost model with improved math, coding, reasoning, and safety inherited from Claude 2.
Generalisation of language instructions to novel physical manipulation tasks.
We spent 150+ hours red teaming frontier models with biosecurity experts and found mitigations that meaningfully reduce harmful outputs.
Cybersecurity best practices for frontier AI labs, including two-party control and treating frontier AI as critical infrastructure.
In a randomised experiment on professional writing tasks, ChatGPT reduced time taken by about 40% and raised graded output quality by about 18% relative to the control group.
A meta-analysis of early controlled studies reported an average productivity increase of about 66% across supported tasks, with wide variance by task type.
Claude 2 brings improved performance, a 100K token context window, and 2x better harmlessness, available via API and the claude.ai beta.
Automatic clinical note drafting and coding suggestions from ambient audio.
Anthropic's NTIA submission recommends rigorous model evaluations, pre-registration of large training runs, and mandatory external red teaming.
Anthropic raised $450 million in Series C funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, and Zoom Ventures.
Zoom will integrate Claude into its Contact Center portfolio, and Zoom Ventures invests in Anthropic.
Claude's context window expands from 9K to 100K tokens, roughly 75,000 words, letting it process hundreds of pages in under a minute.
How Claude's constitution—explicit principles drawn from sources like the UN Declaration of Human Rights—guides its training.
Autonomous ticket resolution with knowledge-base grounding and handover.
Scale AI customers can build and deploy generative AI applications on Claude with enterprise deployment tooling and data connectors.
Anthropic urges Congress to ambitiously fund NIST to build AI measurement tools, standards, and testbeds.
The analysis estimates that a substantial share of current work tasks could be automated by generative AI, with a headline estimate of around 300 million full-time jobs globally exposed, and finds that most exposed occupations are partially rather than fully exposed.
Generative fill, expand and text-to-image inside Photoshop and Illustrator workflows.
Claude is a next-generation AI assistant available via chat interface and API, with early partners including Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo.
Transformative AI may arrive within a decade, and we don't yet know how to make it safe. We outline the research directions we're pursuing to understand and align AI.
Multi-file codebase edits driven by natural-language instructions.
In a controlled experiment with 95 developers, those with access to GitHub Copilot completed a specified programming task 55.8% faster than the control group.
Anthropic selects Google Cloud as preferred cloud provider, using its GPU and TPU clusters to train, scale, and deploy AI systems.
Ticket and chat automation with analytics on conversation outcomes.
Ambient scribing with speciality-specific note structures.
Contract analysis, diligence review and memo drafting with citation support.
Drafting, summarising, analysis, coding help and translation.
High-aesthetic still image generation and style reference control.
Code completion, test generation, PR summaries and agent-mode issue fixing.
Anthropic raised $580 million in Series B funding to build infrastructure for studying and improving the safety of large-scale AI models.
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