Anthropic wants its AI assistant Claude to become your favorite colleague
Anthropic has upgraded its generative AI assistant Claude to be more useful in the office. Claude Pro and Claude Team subscribers can now better organize and track their work with the AI assistant thanks to the new Projects and Artifacts features.
Projects are both a place to store and interact with data for tasks. Users can upload all their documents, code and other relevant data in one place. Each project within Claude.ai contains a 200 KB context window, which is equivalent to a 500-page book. They can then ask Claude about it and even create customized instructions on how to respond in terms of tone or the context of who is asking the question and what they might need. The idea is to avoid what Anthropic calls “cold starts,” where users have to start from scratch every time they use the AI assistant. Because Claude has a knowledge base to draw from, he can respond to questions more quickly and accurately.
Office artifacts
The Artifacts feature is something of a flip of Projects, as it can produce a wide variety of content in the same way that Projects can store it. Users can ask Claude to create text, code, and other “artifacts.” Claude shares the output in a special window next to the chat, like a preview window of what he’s composing. This setup allows users to see and interact with the generated content in real time, providing immediate feedback and adjustments where necessary. An additional upgrade lets users share the best bits of conversations with Claude with their team in a shared Project activity feed.
Both projects and artifacts are powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Anthropic’s latest AI model. According to the company, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms recently announced models like GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini 1.5 on several benchmarks.
“Our vision for Claude has always been to create AI systems that collaborate with people and improve their workflows in meaningful ways,” Anthropic explains in a blog after“This new functionality will enable Claude to generate ideas, make more strategic decisions and achieve exceptional results.”