Claude 2 at a glance
Claude 2 improved coding and exam scores over Claude 1.3, accepted prompts of up to 100K tokens, and launched in the API and on claude.ai in the US and UK.
What changed with Claude 2
Anthropic released Claude 2 on July 11, 2023, through its API and a new public beta website, claude.ai, initially open in the US and UK. Business API pricing stayed the same as Claude 1.3.
Anthropic reported 76.5% on the multiple-choice section of the bar exam, up from 73.0% for Claude 1.3, and 71.2% on the Codex HumanEval coding test, up from 56.0%. Prompts could hold up to 100K tokens, which Anthropic said was enough for hundreds of pages of documentation.
Claude 2 in numbers
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- 100K tokens
How it compares
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Where to compare Claude 2
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Why Claude 2 matters for businesses
For businesses, the 100K window was the headline. Teams could drop in whole contracts, reports or manuals and ask questions about them directly, which made document review one of the first broadly useful AI workflows.
Sources for this story
- Claude 2 (opens in a new tab)Official
Anthropic · anthropic.com
- Claude 2.0 model page (opens in a new tab)Benchmark
Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai
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