Anthropic, the Amazon-backed- artificial intelligence startup, introduces a new API feature- Citations that allows Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to ground its answers in the source document and cite them as soon as the fetched information appears in the response. With this, it can now provide you with detailed references and context to the exact sentences and passages that it cites in its response leading to more verifiable, trustworthy outputs.

This new feature allows the AI model to verify the source behind whatever information it produces in response to the user query. Dealing away with the previous arrangements that needed complex coding and prompts, this time You can now add source documents to the context window, and when querying the model, Claude automatically cites claims in its output that are inferred from those sources.

Anthropic’s Citations: Your Question Answer Companion

As Anthropic comes all loaded with the Citations feature, you can now get detailed answers to user queries across a large corpus of documents, like financial statements, with each response element traced back to specific sections of relevant texts. This makes the engagement and interaction process much more easier than ever making it an attractive destination for you. 

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Athropic’s Citations: What Process Does It Follow? 

First, it processes the user-provided source documents by chunking them into sentences. Further these chunked sentences, along with user-provided context, are then passed to the model with the user's query. The model then analyzes the query and generates a response that includes precise citations based on the provided chunks and context for any claims derived from the source material.

Anthropic’s Citations: How’s Thomson Reuters Utilsing It? 

"This capability not only helps minimize hallucination risk but also strengthens trust in AI-generated content. The Citations feature will enable us to build an even more accurate and thorough AI assistant for lawyers,” said Jake Heller, Head of Product, CoCounsel, Thomson Reuters as he remarked on the usability and effectiveness of the new feature.

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Anthropic’s Citations: Its Availability 

Citations are now available for the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku models.