Claude 2: 100K-token context, consumer access opens
In one sentence Anthropic launches Claude 2 with a 100,000-token context window (~75,000 words) and opens claude.ai to the general public (initially US and UK). Long-context enters the mainstream.
Anthropic ships Claude 2 with two big moves: opens it to the public on claude.ai (previously API-only) and gives it a huge context memory — 100,000 tokens, roughly 75,000 words, the equivalent of an entire book.
Translated: you can upload a 100-page PDF and ask it to summarize, answer questions about specific details, compare it with another PDF. ChatGPT at that moment is stuck at 8,000 tokens (GPT-4) or 32,000 (gpt-4-32k).
For anyone working with long documents — lawyers, researchers, analysts — it's the first model truly usable as a "reading colleague".
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