On Wednesday, Anthropic introduced the launch of an iOS cellular app for its Claude 3 AI language fashions which might be much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It additionally launched a brand new subscription tier designed for group collaboration. Earlier than the app launch, Claude was solely accessible via an internet site, an API, and different apps that built-in Claude via API.
Just like the ChatGPT app, Claude’s new cellular app serves as a gateway to chatbot interactions, and it additionally permits importing photographs for evaluation. Whereas it is solely accessible on Apple units for now, Anthropic says that an Android app is coming quickly.
Anthropic rolled out the Claude 3 giant language mannequin (LLM) household in March, that includes three totally different mannequin sizes: Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Haiku. At the moment, the app makes use of Sonnet for normal customers and Opus for Professional customers.
Whereas Anthropic has been a key participant within the AI discipline for a number of years, it is getting into the cellular house after lots of its opponents have already established footprints on cellular platforms. OpenAI launched its ChatGPT app for iOS in Might 2023, with an Android model arriving two months later. Microsoft launched a Copilot iOS app in January. Google Gemini is offered via the Google app on iPhone.
The app is freely accessible to all customers of Claude, together with these utilizing the free model, subscribers paying $20 monthly for Claude Professional, and members of the newly launched Claude Staff plan. Dialog historical past is saved and shared between the online app model of Claude and the cellular app model after logging in.
Talking of that Staff plan, it is designed for teams of at the least 5 and is priced at $30 per seat monthly. It presents extra chat queries (larger charge limits), entry to all three Claude fashions, and a bigger context window (200K tokens) for processing prolonged paperwork or sustaining detailed conversations. It additionally contains group admin instruments and billing administration, and customers can simply change between Professional and Staff plans.