Anthropic, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence startup backed by Alphabet and Amazon.com, has recently unveiled a new chatbot technology designed specifically for businesses. The San Francisco-based company released its Claude 3 models in March, which it claims outperforms competitors such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.
The latest offering from Anthropic is an app for Apple’s iPhones that provides Claude 3 to businesses for a monthly rate of $30 per user with a minimum of 5 users per plan. This move sets up direct competition with OpenAI, who also offers a similar plan for businesses at the same rate. However, the push into enterprise technology could lead to competition with Anthropic’s backers Google and Amazon, who are also vying for business AI spending.
Claude 3’s key feature is its ability to ingest large amounts of data, equivalent to the length of two books, and summarize, analyze or extract accurate information from it. This technology can be used by finance teams to generate reports, engineering teams for coding projects or sales teams for client collaboration. According to Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic, Claude is adept at handling structured and unstructured data making tasks like summarizing documents or charts more efficient.
The growing AI sector is seeing tensions between competitors and backers, with overlap in offerings leading to direct competition. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously pitched the company’s business offering to some of Microsoft’s largest customers. With Anthropic’s latest technology release, the company is poised to tap into the corporate AI market potentially disrupting the landscape dominated by tech giants.
