It does not seem like an ideal strategy for Anthropic to publish their big Claude announcement on the same day GPT-4 was released. That is exactly what happened, though, so Claude got a bit buried under the excitement.
After working for the past few months with key partners like Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo in a closed alpha, we’ve been able to carefully test out our systems in the wild, and are ready to offer Claude more broadly so it can power crucial, cutting-edge use cases at scale.
Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems. Accessible through chat interface and API in our developer console, Claude is capable of a wide variety of conversational and text processing tasks while maintaining a high degree of reliability and predictability.
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We’re offering two versions of Claude today: Claude and Claude Instant. Claude is a state-of-the-art high-performance model, while Claude Instant is a lighter, less expensive, and much faster option.
From what I have been able to see through the Poe app, Claude is Good. And, I am thankful there is a serious competitor to OpenAI. At the end of the day, though, I am not sure Anthropic is the alternative to OpenAI that the world needs. We need a serious open source project, not another proprietary API.
Update:
I ran some comparisons between Claude, Bard, and GPT-4. You can read the results here.