Claude

Claude is the AI assistant made by Anthropic, an AI safety company based in San Francisco. It was released in March 2023. People use it to write and edit documents, analyse files, answer research questions and write code.

Claude runs on Anthropic's own family of Claude models. It can read long documents, PDFs and images, search the web and create files such as documents, spreadsheets and small apps. Projects let users keep files and instructions together for ongoing work. It is available on the web, on desktop for Mac and Windows, and on iOS and Android.

There is a free plan with usage limits. The Pro and Max plans raise those limits and include Claude Code, the company's coding tool. Team and Enterprise plans add admin controls, single sign-on and shared projects. Developers can use the same models through the Claude API and through cloud providers such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.