Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Enterprise, its biggest new product since its chatbot debut and a stepping stone for businesses looking to incorporate Anthropic’s AI.
THE AmazonThe AI-backed startup, founded by former OpenAI research executives, is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, have exploded in popularity in recent years.
Since Anthropic released the first version of chatbot Claude in March 2023, without consumer access or much fanfare, it has become one of the hottest AI startups, with backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon, and a product which directly competes with ChatGPT in both. the business and consumer worlds. Since January, it has introduced iOS and Android apps, a team plan for businesses, and an international expansion into Europe.
GitLab, Midjourney and Menlo Ventures have all been beta-testers and early customers of Claude Enterprise, along with North Highland Consulting and Sourcegraph. GitLab used the product to create content and respond to requests for proposals in a more automated way, Scott White, director of products at Anthropic, told CNBC in an interview.
“[We’re] moving into a world where these models will act much more like virtual partners than virtual assistants,” White said.
Claude Enterprise allows customers to upload relevant documents with a much larger context window than before, which translates to 100 different 30-minute sales calls, 100,000 lines of code, or 15 full financial reports. The plan also allows “activity feeds” for super-users within a company to show AI newcomers how they’re using the technology, White said.
Pricing will depend on each organization’s needs, an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC, but factors will include scale of use, such as number of users and query volume, and specific feature requirements such as depth of integration.
Anthropic also highlighted enterprise privacy in a presentation aired by CNBC, which described the project’s role-based access and project-based invitations, as well as audit logs coming soon. “Anthropic does not train our models on your Claude for Work data,” a slide said.
About a dozen dedicated people work at Claude Enterprise, and the company has been working on the product since at least January, White said. So far, a wide range of industries have expressed interest in the product, he said, including companies in the legal and consulting space, as well as financial services and software.
The release of Claude Enterprise follows Anthropic’s debut in June of its most powerful AI model yet, the Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and the release of its ‘Team’ plan for smaller businesses in May.
The Team project had been in development for the past few quarters and included beta-testing with between 30 and 50 customers in industries including technology, financial services, legal services and healthcare, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei told CNBC. the time. The idea for the service came in part from many of the same customers asking for a dedicated enterprise product, Amodei added.
In June, Anthropic also announced “Artifacts,” which it said allows a user to ask chatbot Claude to generate, for example, a text document or code, and then open the result in a dedicated window. “This creates a dynamic workspace where they can see, edit and build on Claude’s creations in real time,” the company said, adding that it expects Artifacts to be useful for code development, writing and analyzing legal contracts. , writing business reports and more.
Artifacts, or “workspaces” that allow users to “view, edit and build on Claude’s creations in real time,” are a key benefit for Claude Enterprise customers, White told CNBC. The feature will allow Enterprise customers to create marketing calendars, feed sales data, make dashboards or forecasts, design code for features, write legal documents, summarize complex contracts, automate legal tasks and more.
Shortly after Anthropic debuted on Teams in May, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joined the company as Chief Product Officer. Krieger, the former CTO of Meta-owned Instagram, grew the platform to 1 billion users and grew its engineering team to more than 450 people during his time there, per release. Former OpenAI security leader Jan Leike joined the company the same month
As startups like Anthropic and OpenAI gain steam in the productive AI business, they—along with tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta—have joined an AI arms race to incorporate the technology to ensure that they will not be left behind in a market that is expected to exceed $1 trillion in revenue within a decade.