In an attempt to steal OpenAI’s Operator’s limelight, Anthropic announced an impressive addition, known as the Citations feature, to its developer API on Thursday. This addition allows developers to establish a foundation for responses generated by Claude AI by pinpointing source documents such as emails.
According to Anthropic, their Citing feature enables AI models to accurately reference specific sentences and passages that are used to formulate their responses. As of now, Citations is accessible on both Anthropic’s Application Programming Interface (API) and Google’s Vertex AI platform.
A detailed explanation provided by Anthropic via a blog post indicated that the developers could incorporate source files to allow the model to self-cite all inferences made from those files. The company further stated that Citations are highly beneficial in document summarization, Q&As, and customer support applications. It encourages models to include source citations.
However, access to Citations isn’t generalized across all of Anthropic’s AI models. Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku support this feature, and it doesn’t come free of charge. The cost, influenced by the length and quantity of source documents, can be substantial.
The standard API pricing set by Anthropic suggests that the total cost of citing a source document around 100 pages long would be approximately $0.30 with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, or $0.08 with Claude 3.5 Haiku. Despite this charge, the Citations feature can be a viable investment for developers looking to minimize AI-generated errors.
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