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 “ground” solutions from its Claude household of AI in supply paperwork equivalent to emails.
Anthropic says Citations permits its AI fashions to offer detailed references to “the exact sentences and passages” from docs they use to generate responses. As of Thursday afternoon, Citations is obtainable 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 purposes, Anthropic says, the place the function can nudge fashions to insert supply citations.
Citations isn’t out there 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 might incur expenses relying on the size and variety of the supply paperwork.
Based on Anthropic’s normal 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 value it for devs trying to reduce down on hallucinations and different AI-induced errors.
