Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot Claude can now search the web – long avoiding its features.
Web Search is now available in preview of paid Claude users in the United States Say on the blogwith support from free users and other countries, is about to be launched. Users can switch their in web search Configuration file settings From the Claude web application, Claude will automatically search across sites to inform certain responses.
Currently, web search is only available for the latest anthropomorphic model Claude, Claude 3.7 sonnetHumans say.
“When Claude incorporates information from the network into its response, it provides direct references, so you can easily do fact-checking resources,” the company wrote in a blog post. “While finding the search results themselves, Claude processes and provides relevant resources in a conversational format. This enhancement extends Claude’s extensive knowledge base with real-time insights, providing answers based on more current information.”
Claude’s ability to search the network makes it equal with most competitors AI-powered chatbots, including Openai’s chatbots chatgptGoogle’s Geminiand Mistral le chat. Previously, human arguments against it were that Claude was “Designed as independent. ”There is no doubt that competitive pressure is related to reversal.
Of course, the risk is the source of Claude’s hallucination or confusion. Other chatbots will suffer from this. according to Recent research From the Drag Digital News Center, popular chatbots including Chatgpt and Gemini provide wrong answers to over 60% of the questions.
