Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the launch of an iOS mobile app for its Claude 3 AI language fashions which might be just like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It additionally launched a brand new subscription tier designed for group collaboration. Earlier than the app launch, Claude was solely out there by way of an internet site, an API, and different apps that built-in Claude by way of API.

Just like the ChatGPT app, Claude’s new cellular app serves as a gateway to chatbot interactions, and it additionally permits importing pictures for evaluation. Whereas it is solely out there on Apple units for now, Anthropic says that an Android app is coming quickly.

Anthropic rolled out the Claude 3 giant language mannequin (LLM) household in March, that includes three completely different mannequin sizes: Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Haiku. At the moment, the app makes use of Sonnet for normal customers and Opus for Professional customers.

Whereas Anthropic has been a key participant within the AI area for a number of years, it is coming into the cellular house after lots of its rivals have already established footprints on cellular platforms. OpenAI launched its ChatGPT app for iOS in Might 2023, with an Android version arriving two months later. Microsoft launched a Copilot iOS app in January. Google Gemini is obtainable by way of the Google app on iPhone.

The app is freely available to all customers of Claude, together with these utilizing the free model, subscribers paying $20 per 30 days for Claude Professional, and members of the newly launched Claude Workforce plan. Dialog historical past is saved and shared between the net app model of Claude and the cellular app model after logging in.

Talking of that Workforce plan, it is designed for teams of no less than 5 and is priced at $30 per seat per 30 days. It affords extra chat queries (larger fee limits), entry to all three Claude fashions, and a bigger context window (200K tokens) for processing prolonged paperwork or sustaining detailed conversations. It additionally consists of group admin instruments and billing administration, and customers can simply change between Professional and Workforce plans.