Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot

Anthropic is adding web search to its Claude chatbot in a very smart way

Anthropic announced Thursday that it has added web search capability to its Claude chatbot. It’s not a new feature to the AI world—but the company’s approach stands as one of the most thoughtful to date. Much like Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claude works relevant information from the web into a conversational answer, and includes clickable source citations.  Web search is available as a “feature preview” for U.S. users of the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model…

At the end of February, Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which marked a significant breakthrough in the industry by introducing the first hybrid reasoning model. Now, Anthropic is improving even more...

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One of the World's Most Advanced AI Agents Is Completely Stuck Trying to Beat a Pokémon Game for Children

In case you haven't heard, Anthropic has been livestreaming its AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, attempting to complete a playthrough of Pokémon Red. The experiment, dubbed "Claude Plays Pokémon," is intended to be a demonstration of "AI agents," the industry's ongoing race to create AI models that are capable of operating autonomously by interacting with their environment. Claude has managed to get surprisingly far into the game, clinching three Gy…

Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI now supports web search, but only for paid users

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in early January that Claude would get a few upgrades to put it on par with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He mentioned advanced reasoning support and internet search abilities were in the works for Claude, but didn't commit to rollout schedules for either feature. Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet a few weeks ago, which offered the reasoning features Amodei teased, including an extended thinking mode feature. However, sear…

Google's race from behind against OpenAI has 'been like sprinting a marathon'

After OpenAI took the world by storm with the launch of ChatGPT, Google (GOOGL) reportedly gave its team working on artificial intelligence 100 days to build a competitor — fearful of falling behind in a race it had been leading.Read more...