As Anthropic aims to position Claude a leading AI assistant, it integrated the AI tool with browsing capabilities. The AI safety and research company recently announced that its flagship AI assistant, Claude, can now search the web, providing users with real-time responses. While highlighting the key features of the upgradation, Anthropic says
‘When Claude incorporates information from the web into its responses, it provides direct citations so you can easily fact check sources’
This new feature is integrated in Claude, ensuring transparency and fact-checking the information provided by the AI assistant to its users. After this upgrade, Claude will streamline the information-gathering process, enhancing the quality of tasks done through this AI assistant. It will also save the time of users who were previously required to manual browsing for data collection. Additionally, source links will also be provided along with the information for fact-checking. The company says
“Claude processes and delivers relevant sources in a conversational format.”
This feature is currently available for US users with Claudo Pro subscription. The subscribers can access this feature by going to the ‘feature preview’ section in their profile and enabling web search on. Scott White, Claude’ Product Lead, also informed its users that the company is planning to expand this feature to free users in other countries as well.
Claude Browsing for All Industries
Claude is a popular AI office assistant, available in four types of subscriptions. It is used for coding, graph making, advanced reasoning, and multi-tasking purposes. It can be used personally and in teams. While announcing the recent upgradation of Claude, the company assured its users that this new feature will be very helpful for people from all kinds of industries. Some prominent users are
Financial Analysts
The AI safety and research company informed the financial analysts that they can now access latest market data and industry trends, thereby, making better decisions and financial models in less time. Instead of manually browsing different websites for real-time data, they can generate reports through single prompts.
Researchers
Anthropic also gave the good news to the researchers that they can now build better research proposals and write updated literature reviews by searching across primary sources via Claude search feature.
Marketing Strategists
This new feature of Claude will also assist the marketing strategists by assisting them in comparing products with their current prices and latest reviews. Claude could be their one stop shop for all the product details.
AI Assistants: A New Tech Race
Currently all the tech giants are regularly launching advanced features in their AI assistants to compete in this new tech race. Recently, Gemini launched voice-based feature ‘Gemini Live’, assisting users by making natural conversations. Similarly, Apple also upgraded Siri in iphone 16E by improving AI interaction
