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What is Claude?
An AI assistant created by Anthropic, known for safety, helpfulness, and handling long documents.
Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, a company focused on AI safety. Claude is designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
What Makes Claude Different?
Claude has several unique characteristics:
- Long context window: Can read and analyze documents up to 200,000 tokens (roughly 150,000 words)
- Safety-focused: Built with "Constitutional AI" principles to be helpful while avoiding harm
- Natural writing: Known for producing more human-like, less "robotic" text
- Nuanced understanding: Better at understanding complex, multi-part requests
Claude's Capabilities
- Research and analysis of long documents
- Writing and editing assistance
- Coding help and debugging
- Creative writing and brainstorming
- Data analysis and summarization
How to Use Claude
Claude is available at claude.ai. You can use it for free with daily limits, or subscribe to Claude Pro for more capacity.
Examples
- 1Upload a 100-page PDF and ask Claude to summarize it
- 2Get help writing a nuanced email
- 3Analyze code and get improvement suggestions