Anthropic's Claude
Anthropic is a public-benefit corporation in San Francisco that developed and released a Large Language Model (LLM) called Claude, with the current version, Claude 3, released in March of 20241.
There are three Claude 3 models:
- Claude 3 Haiku is the smallest, cheapest, and fastest model with a context window of 200k characters. Claude 3 Haiku is designed for customer support, translations, content moderation, optimized logistics, inventory management, and knowledge extraction from unstructured data.
- Claude 3 Sonnet a larger model than Claude 3 Haiku that balances intelligence and speed with a context window of 200k characters. Claude 3 Sonnet is intended for use with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) over large amounts of documents, product recommendations, sales forecasting, targeted marketing, code generation, quality control, and parsing text from images.
- Claude 3 Opus the largest and most performant model, with a context window of 200k (up to 1 million) characters. Claude 3 Opus is suitable for task automation that plan and execute complex actions across APIs and databases, interactive coding, research review, brainstorming and hypothesis generation, drug discovery, advanced analysis of charts and graphs, financials and market trends, and forecasting.
Claude 3 is a competitor with ChatGPT 4 and on some benchmarks, performs as well or better than ChatGPT.
Using Claude
To use Claude for free, you will need to sign up for an account on the Anthropic website. Even with a free account, you will need to purchase credits to use the API.
Workshop Exercise
Ask Claude to generate a Python FASTAPI function for a POST request that will trigger an Airflow DAG run with a JSON payload.