In an announcement maybe timed to divert consideration away from OpenAI’s Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a brand new function for its developer API known as Citations, which lets devs “floor” solutions from its Claude household of AI in supply paperwork resembling emails.
Anthropic says Citations permits its AI fashions to supply detailed references to “the precise sentences and passages” from docs they use to generate responses. As of Thursday afternoon, Citations is out there in each Anthropic’s API and Google’s Vertex AI platform.
As Anthropic explains in a weblog publish with Citations, devs can add supply recordsdata to have fashions robotically cite claims that they inferred from these recordsdata. Citations is especially helpful in doc summarization, Q&A, and buyer help functions, Anthropic says, the place the function can nudge fashions to insert supply citations.
Citations isn’t obtainable for all of Anthropic’s fashions — solely Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku. Also, the function isn’t free. Anthropic notes that Citations could incur fees relying on the size and variety of the supply paperwork.
Based on Anthropic’s customary API pricing, which Citations makes use of, a roughly-100-page supply doc would value round $0.30 with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, or $0.08 with Claude 3.5 Haiku. That might be price it for devs trying to lower down on hallucinations and different AI-induced errors.
