Anthropic has launched Claude Enterprise, an opportunity for big businesses to integrate its artificial intelligence models into their operations. The new subscription plan, rivaling a similar one from OpenAI ChatGPT, grants subscribers more security, privacy, and administrative control.
According to the Amazon-backed AI startup, it has been working on this new product since January, meaning it was almost ready when it launched the Claude 3.5 sonnet model in June. The company also released Claude Team in May; that product will now serve smaller businesses.
Claude Enterprise is a virtual collaborator instead of an assistant
The new product plan comes loaded with features, including a 500,000 tokens context window, allowing it to process a large swath of data with a single interaction. For context, it will take a single prompt to process 200,000 lines of code, several 100-page documents, or a 2-hour audio transcript on Claude Enterprise.
This allows the chatbot to easily understand a large amount of information, enabling businesses to integrate their proprietary data into the model and deploy it for company-specific use cases. By comparison, ChatGPT Enterprise has a context window of 128,000 tokens, while Claude Team has 200,000 tokens.
Speaking on its immense capabilities, Anthropic product lead Scott White described it as the next step in the evolution of AI chatbots, noting that Claude is moving from being a virtual assistant to a virtual collaborator.
He said;
“I think about a world we’re moving towards where Claude becomes a virtual collaborator. What that means is unbounding two constraints: One is that Claude has more access to information about who you are, what you’re trying to do, what your role is, what your job function is, and [the other is] the organizational knowledge that you use to do that job being connected into those systems of record.”
White also explained what makes a collaborator different from an assistant, noting that Claude Enterprise does not require all the scientifically accurate and context-specific prompting of traditional AI chatbots to perform effectively.
This might be ChatGPT Enterprise’s biggest competition
Meanwhile, the new product might be the biggest competitor that OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise has seen since it launched about a year ago. Not only does it have more capacity in terms of context window, but it also boasts other features such as Projects and Artifacts workspaces.
These workspaces allow several users to simultaneously upload and edit content, making them ideal for companies where big teams work on large-scale projects.
Additionally, it has GitHub integration, allowing engineering teams to integrate their GitHub repositories directly with Claude. Considering how many software developers already rely on Claude 3.5 Sonnet, this new product plan could make coding even more seamless through Claude.
Claude Enterprise also boasts privacy features, including customizable role-based permissions and audit logs, which ensure data protection and compliance monitoring. These features, along with its novel ability to create new creative processes and workflows, make it a challenger to existing enterprise-grade AI products.
Several startups and high-profile businesses are already using Claude Enterprise, with beta testers including GitLab, Midjourney, North Highland, and Menlo Ventures. However, Anthropic did not specify the subscription cost, saying it would depend on the customers’ needs.
