Anthropic Releases Claude 2.1 Generative AI Chatbot With 200K Context Window and Reduced Errors

Anthropic, a generative AI startup, has launched Claude 2.1, an upgraded version of its conversational generative AI. The new iteration expands Claude’s comprehension abilities and reduces hallucinations. Claude 2.1 doubles the context window of Claude 2.0 to 200,000 tokens, enabling it to process long technical manuals, financial filings, or multiple books in a single upload. This upgrade allows for more accurate summarization, question answering, trend analysis, and document comparison.

Expanding the Context Window

The context window of a generative AI chatbot determines how much content it uses to answer questions. With the increase to 200,000 tokens, Claude 2.1 can process around 150,000 words or over 500 pages of material. This expanded context window significantly reduces the likelihood of Claude providing incorrect or made-up answers. Anthropic claims that Claude 2.1 produces only half the hallucinations of its predecessor, making it an attractive option for enterprise services that require error-free customer service chatbots. Additionally, Claude 2.1 exhibits a 30% decrease in inaccurate answers and is up to four times less likely to infer unsupported assertions in lengthy documents.

New Features and Capabilities

In addition to the context window upgrade, Anthropic has introduced a beta feature called “tool use,” which allows Claude to utilize external APIs and databases for specific tasks. For example, Claude can use a calculator or translator for numerical reasoning or linguistic changes. It can also access product datasets to provide recommendations to users. These upgrades address user feedback and aim to deliver more reliable and precise outputs.

Anthropic’s Success and Market Advantage

Anthropic has had a successful year, raising $100 million from SK Telecom in August and $450 million in May. The company released Claude 2.0 and Claude Instant 1.2, as well as a paid version called Claude Pro. With the release of Claude 2.1, Anthropic strengthens its position in the market and may attract more enterprise clients, especially considering the recent turmoil at OpenAI.

Sources: Voicebot.ai