Google-backed Anthropic upgrades its Claude AI

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup backed by Google, on Tuesday widened consumer access to its chat program Claude and upgraded underlying technology that the company says makes “Claude 2” better at tasks such computer coding and arithmetic.

The San Francisco-based company said its new AI model, the latest in a cascade of product releases from Silicon Valley, was also less likely than its prior technology to give offensive or dangerous responses. Businesses can launch products ..

The immediate promise of such technology is to vastly speed up reading and writing tasks. This so-called generative AI, for instance, can draft blog posts or read and analyze existing text.

One of the ways Anthropic aims to set itself apart from the competition is the ability of its system to read about 75,000 words at a time, which the company says lets the AI pore through long business documents.