What Is Claude 2?
Claude 2 is a new and improved AI tool developed by the company, offering enhanced performance, longer responses, and multiple access options, including an API and a beta website called claude.ai. Users have praised Claude’s conversational ease, clear explanations, reduced likelihood of harmful outputs, and increased memory capacity. The model has undergone significant improvements in coding, math, and reasoning, resulting in higher scores on various exams compared to its predecessor, Claude 1.3.
Designed to be a friendly and enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant, Claude 2 accepts natural language instructions for various tasks. The API for businesses is available at the same price as Claude 1.3, and the beta chat experience is accessible to users in the US and UK.
The company has focused on enhancing both the performance and safety of Claude 2. As part of this effort, they have increased the input and output length of the AI tool, allowing users to input up to 100K tokens, making it suitable for handling lengthy technical documentation or even entire books in one go.
Notably, Claude 2 showcases significant progress in coding skills, with an impressive 71.2% score on the Codex HumanEval, up from 56.0% in Claude 1.3. It also achieved an 88.0% score on GSM8k, an extensive set of grade-school math problems, surpassing its previous score of 85.2%. The company has an exciting roadmap of capability improvements planned for Claude 2, which will be gradually deployed in the upcoming months.
Safety has been a key focus during the development of Claude 2, aiming to minimize offensive or harmful outputs. The company employs an internal red-teaming evaluation that assesses the model’s responses to harmful prompts, resulting in a significant improvement in giving harmless responses compared to Claude 1.3. Various safety techniques and extensive red-teaming have been employed to enhance the model’s outputs.
Claude 2 is already powering the chat experience and is available in the US and UK. The company is actively working to expand its availability globally in the near future. Users can create accounts and communicate with Claude in natural language for assistance with various tasks, though some trial and error may be involved, and the company offers helpful tips to maximize the benefits of interacting with the AI assistant.
Currently collaborating with numerous businesses, such as Jasper, which utilizes the Claude API. Jasper praises Claude 2 for its competitive performance in various use cases, particularly excelling in long-form low latency tasks. Through this partnership, Claude 2 offers enhanced semantics, up-to-date knowledge training, improved reasoning for complex prompts, and the ability to effortlessly remix existing content with a 3X larger context window, as stated by Greg Larson, VP of Engineering at Jasper. The collaboration aims to help customers stay ahead in content strategies and showcases Claude 2’s capabilities in real-world applications.
