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Claude is Anthropic's family of Large Language Models.

2023

claude.ai. Anthropic’s new Claude 2 model is available to use online, and it has a 100k token context window and the ability to upload files to it—I tried uploading a text file with 34,000 tokens in it (according to my ttok CLI tool, counting using the GPT-3.5 tokenizer) and it gave me a workable summary.

# 12th July 2023, 4:39 pm / llms, ai, generative-ai, anthropic, claude, llm-release

It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input

One of the most common concerns I see about large language models regards their training data. People are worried that anything they say to ChatGPT could be memorized by it and spat out to other users. People are concerned that anything they store in a private repository on GitHub might be used as training data for future versions of Copilot.

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ChatGPT should include inline tips

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In OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear James Vincent argues that OpenAI’s existing warnings about ChatGPT’s confounding ability to convincingly make stuff up are not effective.

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How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide (via) Ethan Mollick’s guide to practical usage of large language model chatbot like ChatGPT 3.5 and 4, Bing, Claude and Bard is the best I’ve seen so far. He includes useful warnings about common traps and things that these models are both useful for and useless at.

# 31st March 2023, 6:17 am / chatgpt, bing, bard, ai, llms, ethan-mollick, claude

Introducing Claude. Anthropic released the first two versions of Claude, "a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems". Claude and Claude Instant are both available via a web chat interface and through their API.

(I back-filled this link on Feb 25th 2026 to help fill out my llm-release tag.)

# 14th March 2023, 8:01 pm / llm-release, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms