Anthropic Releases New Features For Claude's AI Chatbot That Allows The Making Of Email Assistants And Personal Bots

Anthropic will soon release a new feature for their AI chatbot, Claude (photo: x @AnthropicaI)

JAKARTA - Anthropic will soon release a new feature for their AI chatbot, Claude, which allows anyone to create email assistants, bots to buy shoes, or other personalization solutions. This feature is called the "use of tools" (or more technical "function summons"), and can be connected to various external APIs selected by users.

With this feature, Claude can analyze data to provide personalized product recommendations based on user purchasing history or provide quick responses to customer questions, such as real-time tracking of order status or offering technical support. To make an assistant, all it takes is access to API and someone who has the mastery of programming.

In addition, this feature can also work with images, allowing applications that analyze visual data. One example given by Anthropic is a virtual interior design consultant who uses this feature to process room images and provides personalized decoration suggestions.

This AI assistant will be available via Anthropic's Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. Prices based on the volume of text processed by Claude are measured in "tokens." During the beta phase, most users opted for the fastest and most affordable option of Anthropic, namely Haiku, which costs about 25 cents per million input tokens and 1.25 US dollars per million output tokens.

According to Dianne Penn, project leader at Anthropic, the team has been testing beta on Claude's tools since April with several thousand subscribers. He anticipates several interesting startup solutions: one of the highlighted subscribers is Study Match, which uses them to build a personalized AI tutor called Spark.E.

Assistant AI or agent seems to be the direction this technology will take. In Google I/O, the search company revealed various ways to let Google do shopping and search for you using AI.

At OpenAI, the company is working on a Her-style voice assistant who can respond in real-time and observe the world around you.

The release of Anthropic from this new tool allows people to create various assistants according to their needs, with or without the help of Google and OpenAI.