Anthropic Launches Citations Feature to Enhance AI Accuracy
The new API feature allows Claude models to ground responses in source documents, aiming to reduce errors and improve trustworthiness.
Overview
- Anthropic has introduced a Citations feature for its Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku models, available through its API and Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform.
- The feature enables AI models to cite specific sentences and passages from source documents, improving the reliability of generated responses.
- Early adopters, including Thomson Reuters and financial technology company Endex, report promising results in reducing hallucinations and increasing citation accuracy.
- Citations uses Anthropic's token-based pricing model, but quoted text in responses does not count toward output token costs.
- The feature is designed to assist developers in building tools for document summarization, complex queries, and customer support systems.