Anthropic's Claude 2, built by ex-OpenAI employees, reads 75,000 words in 22 seconds thanks to a 100K token context window. It's free and faster than GPT-4 at handling long documents, though the creator finds GPT-4 still smarter overall.
August 16, 2023
Just over $1 billion
100K tokens (claimed)
About 75,000 words — can read a Harry Potter-sized book in around 22 seconds
Have you heard of this free AI that can read an entire book in seconds? And it's one of the main ChatGPT alternatives. I'm talking about Claude 2 by Anthropic, which is a company founded by ex OpenAI employees. If you want tangible evidence that they are serious, they've raised just over $1 billion in investments. Also consider that a large portion of that investment comes from Google in an effort to spread out their bets on AI. So what can it do to showcase its potential? Let me share with you an astonishing fact. While OpenAI's default ChatGPT offers full 4K tokens of context, around 3,000 words, Anthropic's Claude tool can handle 100K tokens, which is equivalent to around 75,000 words. That means this language model can read a book around the size of Harry Potter one in around 22 seconds. Not bad. That's a first at this quality level, but except of the massive context it can retain and its fast responses, I found this model to be inferior to GPT4, but it's free.
