August 2024 Summaries

Artifacts feature is now generally available for all Claude.ai users across Free, Pro, and Team plans. Users can create and view Artifacts on iOS and Android apps. Since its launch in June, users have created tens of millions of Artifacts. The feature enhances conversations with Claude by providing a dedicated window to see, iterate, and build work products. Use cases include creating architecture diagrams, interactive prototypes, visualizations, campaign dashboards, and sales pipeline visualization. Free and Pro plan users can publish and remix Artifacts, while Team plan users can share them in Projects for secure collaboration.

The Anthropic API now offers prompt caching, a feature that enables developers to cache frequently used context between API calls, reducing costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85%. This feature is available in public beta for Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Haiku, with support for Claude 3 Opus coming soon. Prompt caching can be effective in situations such as conversational agents, coding assistants, large document processing, detailed instruction sets, agentic search and tool use, and talking to long-form content like books and papers. Early customers have seen substantial speed and cost improvements with prompt caching, including a full knowledge base, 100-shot examples, and multi-turn conversations. The pricing for cached prompts is based on the number of input tokens cached and how frequently they are used, with writing to the cache costing 25% more than the base input token price, while using cached content costs only 10%.

We're expanding our model safety bug bounty program to identify and mitigate universal jailbreak attacks, which are exploits that allow consistent bypassing of AI safety guardrails across a wide range of areas, including critical domains such as CBRN and cybersecurity. The new initiative will test our next-generation system for AI safety mitigations in a controlled environment before its public deployment, offering bounty rewards up to $15,000 for novel attacks. We're inviting interested researchers to apply to the program and work with us to strengthen AI safety in high-risk areas, aligning with commitments signed by other AI companies to develop responsible AI.

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude is now available in Brazil, offering web-based and mobile apps, as well as an API for developers to integrate its models into their applications. The service provides both free and paid plans with varying usage limits and access to features such as the intelligent model Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Anthropic prioritizes safety and privacy in Claude's design through rigorous testing and training, aiming to reduce misuse and protect user data. The company offers administrative tools for easier onboarding and management for teams on its Team plan.