Claude is a family of large language models released by Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence startup. It possesses capabilities such as advanced reasoning, visual analysis, code generation, multilingual processing, and multimodality. Its goal is to develop artificial intelligence systems that are beneficial to humans, honest, and harmless, ensuring high reliability and predictability. The following is a detailed introduction to it:
On March 15, 2023, Anthropic officially released the initial version of Claude. In July of the same year, Claude 2 was officially launched. In November, Claude 2.1 was released. On March 4, 2024, the Claude 3 series was officially released, and on March 6, Amazon announced that the Claude 3 Sonnet model was available for use on Amazon Bedrock. In May, Anthropic released the iOS version of Claude, and on July 17, the Android version of Claude was launched. On August 14, 2024, Anthropic introduced the “prompt cache” feature for the Claude series, reducing the cost of AI usage for enterprises and enhancing performance.
- Advanced Reasoning: It can perform complex cognitive tasks, going beyond simple pattern recognition and text generation.
- Visual Analysis: It can transcribe and analyze static images, such as handwritten notes, charts, photos, etc.
- Code Generation: It can build websites using HTML and CSS, convert images into structured JSON data, and also debug complex code libraries.
- Multilingual Processing: It supports real-time translation between various languages, grammar practice, or the creation of multilingual content.
- Multimodal Input: Claude 3 can accept both text and images as inputs, providing richer context and expanded use cases.
Claude 3 is divided into three sub-models. Claude 3 Opus is the most powerful model, demonstrating state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance when handling highly complex tasks. Claude 3 Sonnet achieves a balance between intelligence and operation speed, making it suitable for enterprise workloads. Claude 3 Haiku is faster and more compact, capable of providing real-time responses to simple queries and requests.
- Strong Context Understanding Ability: Claude 3 supports a token level in the hundreds of thousands and can handle inputs of more than 1 million tokens. The model has a memory ability, and the recall accuracy of Claude 3 Opus exceeds 99%.
- Excellent Tool Usage Ability: Claude 3 is proficient in using tools and can be integrated into professional applications and custom workflows. It can also generate various demonstration animations with the help of plugins.
- High Security: Claude places great emphasis on security and compliance, following ethical and behavioral principles to avoid harmful outputs and assisting humans in engaging in illegal or unethical activities. There is also a dedicated security assessment and monitoring team. Claude 3 reduces the frequency of refusing to answer questions through various mechanisms and will soon support source citation.
- Professional Writing and Content Creation: It provides writing assistance, creative idea generation, and content optimization functions for professional writers and content creators.
- Business Analysis and Market Research: It helps business analysts and market researchers with data analysis, market research, and business planning.
- Education Field: It supports educators and students in personalized education, learning assistance, and knowledge query.
- Technology Development: It provides support such as code generation, technical document writing, and problem-solving for technical teams and developers.
- Daily Communication and Language Learning: It is suitable for individual users to conduct daily Q&A, language learning, and information search.
It can be used through the Anthropic official website and API calls. The Claude 3 Sonnet model is also available on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. The Claude 3 Opus model is only available to Claude Pro users on the Anthropic official website, and the Claude 3 Haiku model can be used on Amazon Bedrock.
