Anthropic introduces Team subscription tier for Claude 3, iOS app – SiliconANGLE

Anthropic PBC today debuted a new subscription offering, Claude Team, that will enable companies to use its Claude 3 large language model series more easily.

The service is rolling out alongside the company’s first mobile app. The app, which is available at no charge on iOS, works with both the free and paid tiers of Claude 3.

Introduced in early March, the Claude 3 model series comprises three LLMs with varying capabilities. The most advanced is called Opus and can answer complex questions twice as accurately as Anthropic’s previous flagship LLM. Moreover, the company claims that Opus managed to slightly outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in several internal benchmark tests.

The two other Claude 3 models trade off some question-answering prowess for lower pricing and faster response times. The most affordable LLM in the series, Haiku, can read a research paper containing 10,000 tokens’ worth of information in less than three seconds. A token is a unit of data that corresponds to a words or letters.

Until now, Anthropic monetized Claude 3 with a paid tier called Pro that is priced at $20 per user per month. Unlike the free version, it includes the LLM family’s flagship Opus model. Customers also receive several other benefits including priority access during peak hours.

Anthropic’s new Team subscription is an upgraded version of the Pro plan geared toward organizations. It’s priced at $30 per user per month with a minimum purchase requirement of five seats.

Team includes all the features of Pro along with administrative controls designed to ease tasks such as managing employees’ Claude 3 accounts. According to Anthropic, a higher usage limit allows Team users to launch “significantly” more chat sessions per month. A single prompt may contain up to 200,000 tokens’ worth of data.

Anthropic intends to expand the Tier plan with several additional features in the coming weeks. Among the upcoming enhancements is a tool that allows Claude 3 to interact with information hosted in cloud applications, code repositories and other third-party data sources. Another new capability will enable the LLMs in the series to verify their prompt responses by citing sources.

The Team plan is also set to receive a number of collaboration features. According to Anthropic, users will gain the ability to create folders dedicated to specific projects and share them with colleagues. Those folders are designed to store business documents, code files and other records that Claude 3 models can draw on to generate answers.

The new Team subscription is rolling alongside a free iOS client for the LLM series. According to Anthropic, iPhone and iPad users may upload photos to access the Claude 3 model family’s image analysis features. The app is synced with the web version, which means that chat sessions started in a browser can be continued on iOS. 

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