Unlike its competitors, the company Anthropic has long refused to integrate internet searches to help Claude answer questions. The AI bot is "designed to operate autonomously and does not search the internet," as the company explained in a support sheet that has since disappeared (the internet doesn't forget anything, you can still find it here).
A bot stuck in October 2024
The pressure was certainly too great. ChatGPT has a search engine, just like Gemini or Le Chat. Claude now offers support for online search, a feature still limited to paying subscribers in the United States, and in the form of a preview. Anthropic is taking it slow, only the 3.7 Sonnet model is affected, but still promises support for additional languages and new countries soon.
Depending on the user's query, the bot will decide for itself whether to search for the answer online. When it does, it presents a series of cards containing information related to the request, then offers written answers with links to the corresponding sites. "This improvement expands Claude's extensive knowledge base by adding real-time information, allowing it to provide answers based on more recent data," the company explains.
Claude's information base stops at the end of October 2024. If asked about events that occurred after this date, the bot indicates that it will not be able to answer accurately, "at with the exception of certain specific information such as the result of the 2024 US presidential election. This should therefore change soon in French.
Source: Anthropic
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