First Look at Anthropic's Just Released Claude 2 and Claude Instant Completion API

The presentation is about Anthropic's new AI model called Claude 2 and its API. Claude 2 is Anthropic's most powerful publicly available AI model, along with Claude Instant 1.2.

Anthropic is a new startup working on AI safety.
Claude is meant to be an alternative to OpenAI's GPT models.
The Claude API was recently released publicly.

Comparing Claude and GPT
Claude has a much larger context window than GPT - up to 100,000 tokens versus GPT's 32,000 token limit. This allows processing larger blocks of text at once.
Claude is significantly cheaper to use than GPT. For example, Claude 2 costs 1.1 cents per 1000 tokens versus GPT-4's 6 cents per 1000 tokens.
Claude seems optimized for concise, technical outputs while GPT leans more literary.
Claude has only one API endpoint, completion, versus GPT's multiple endpoints.

Claude Capabilities
Text completion
Chat conversations (by chaining prompt history)
Translation between languages
Data extraction from unstructured text
Code analysis and optimization

Examples Discussed
Extracted addresses from HTML better than GPT
Generated JSON resume data from text
Created API call sequences for installing TensorFlow on GPU
Analyzed and suggested improvements for long PHP code
Generated Streamlit app code to display and edit a DataFrame

Conclusion
Claude has strong technical abilities, especially for software engineering use cases
Large context window allows processing bigger blocks of text
Much cheaper pricing than GPT
Overall very impressive so far, though still new and testing needed

The presentation gave a great overview of Claude's capabilities versus GPT models, with many examples. For technical use cases, Claude seems very promising as an alternative AI model.