Anthropic has updated its generative AI assistant Claude to be more useful in the office. Claude Pro and Claude Team subscribers can now better organize and track their work with the AI assistant thanks to the new Projects and Artifacts features.
Projects are both a place to store and interact with data for tasks. Users can upload all their documents, codes and other relevant data in one place. Each project within Claude.ai includes a 200K context window, equivalent to a 500-page book. They can then ask Claude about it and even set up custom instructions on how to respond in terms of tone or the context of who's asking and what they might need. The idea is to avoid what Anthropic calls “cold starts,” where users must start from scratch every time they interact with the AI assistant. By having a knowledge base to draw on, Claude can respond to queries more quickly and accurately.
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The Artifacts feature is something of a departure from Projects, as it can produce a wide range of content in the same way that Projects can store it. Users can ask Claude to create text, code, and other “artifacts.” Claude will share the result in a dedicated window next to the chat, like a preview window of what is being composed. This setting allows users to view and interact with the generated content in real time, providing immediate feedback and adjustments when necessary. An additional update allows users to share Claude's best conversations with her team in a shared project activity feed.
Both projects and artifacts are powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Anthropic's latest AI model. According to the company, the Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms recently announced models like Google's GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 in a variety of benchmarks.
“Our vision for Claude has always been to create AI systems that work alongside people and significantly improve their workflows,” Anthropic explained in a blog post. “With this new functionality, Claude can enable insight generation, more strategic decision-making, and exceptional outcomes.”
