Claude

Developers who want an assistant they can talk to in plain language, and office workers who need help with everyday tasks, are the people Claude fits best.

Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic that takes instructions written in natural language and helps with a wide range of work, from writing and coding to general productivity.

You give it a task the way you would brief a colleague, and it responds in kind.

Anthropic describes the personality as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant, which matches the conversational style.

The version described here is Claude 2, which brought improved performance and longer responses than earlier releases.

Longer replies help when you are drafting documents or working through bigger chunks of code.

You can use Claude on the web through claude.ai, or reach it through an API if you want to build it into your own software.

That makes this AI chatbot useful both as a chat window and as a component in a development workflow.