Anthropic is introducing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude, named “tool use,” which enables users to create personalized AI assistants utilizing external APIs.
These assistants can perform tasks like analyzing data, providing product recommendations, handling customer inquiries, and processing visual data. The tool is accessible through Anthropic’s Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI, with pricing based on token volume. The beta testing phase has shown promising applications, such as Study Fetch’s personalized AI tutor Spark.E.