Anthropic's AI Chatbot, Claude, Gets Major Upgrade and Public Release

Anthropic, a startup backed by companies like Google and Salesforce, has unveiled its new AI chatbot, Claude 2, and is opening it up to the public. The chatbot, which has been tested by businesses such as Slack and Quora, boasts improvements in performance, including the ability to summarize up to 75,000 words and score higher on exams and coding tests. However, challenges remain, such as the issue of AI chatbots providing incorrect answers. Anthropic aims to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google in the rapidly growing field of generative AI chatbots.