OpenAI and Google Gemini rival Anthropic recently announced two important updates to its Claude 3 AI language model. The first is a new subscription tier aimed at making teamwork within the platform easier. The other, slightly more exciting update is the launch of an iOS mobile app for Claude 3 similar to what ChatGPT offers.
Previously, Claude was only accessible through Anthropic’s website, by using its API, or via other apps that had already integrated the AI chatbot. While the new mobile app is only available on iPhones for now, Anthropic says an Android version is also in the works.
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Similar to ChatGPT’s mobile app, Claude’s iOS app allows for quick AI interactions which include uploading images to one of the three differently-sized Large Language Models (LLM) Anthropic launched in March this year.
Currently, freeloaders regular iOS app users will have access to Claude Sonnet while Pro users who pay $20/m (R372/m) get access to the faster Opus model. Regardless of whether they pay or not, users who use the app will have their conversation history saved and shared between both platforms.
Pro users need to pay a little more if they also want access to Anthropic’s new Team plan, priced at $30 (R560) per seat per month. It’s aimed at groups of five or more people and offers access to all three Claude models, more chat queries (meaning higher rate limits), and a larger context window of 200,000 tokens for keeping up with lengthy conversations or processing long-winded documents.
While Anthropic isn’t exactly a newcomer to the AI game, it’s currently playing catchup to the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft who have all launched mobile apps already. Will Anthropic’s Amazon backing be enough to make it a proper contender? If only there was some sort of technology we could ask.
