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OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful

Anthropic’s logo — the outline of a head surrounded by three more larger outlines of heads, and a star-shaped set of lines emerging from a center point of the smallest head and bursting out in seven different lengths of line, terminating in filled-in circles. The background is orange.
Anthropic gives Claude more abilities. | Image: Anthropic

While OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, there’s a new chatbot update from Anthropic, the Google-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI engineers who left over disagreements about the company’s increasingly commercial direction as its Microsoft partnership went on.

Anthropic has announced that the latest update of its chatbot, Claude 2.1, can digest up to 200,000 tokens at once for Pro tier users, which it says equals over 500 pages of material.

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