Anthropic Enhances Claude Chatbot with Web Search Capability

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot now features web search, improving its accuracy with up-to-date information.

Guess what? Anthropic just gave its Claude 3.7 Sonnet chatbot a serious upgrade by throwing web search into the mix. Now, Claude can dive into the vast ocean of the internet to grab the freshest data, making it way better at handling stuff that needs up-to-the-minute info. Remember when Claude was stuck in October 2024? Well, not anymore—it’s now living in the present, pulling real-time info like a pro.

And here’s the kicker: when Claude goes online to fetch answers, it doesn’t just spit them out. It hands you citations too, so you can play detective and check the facts yourself. Right now, this slick feature is a perk for paying folks in the US, but don’t fret—free users and more countries are on the waiting list for this goodness soon.

With this move, Claude is stepping up its game in the chatbot arena, hot on the heels of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which started offering free web search to everyone last fall. Talk about keeping up with the Joneses!