Anthropic launches Claude as a general AI assistant and API

Summary

After partner testing with companies including Notion, Quora and DuckDuckGo, Anthropic expanded Claude through chat and developer access. The launch translated its alignment research into a general product for summarisation, question answering, writing and coding, creating a durable competitor in the frontier-model market. Capability, benchmark and availability claims are attributed to Anthropic unless independently verified. Follow the original source for complete technical details, current availability, licensing and later updates.