Claude's New Web Browsing Feature: A Game Changer

0:00We have some amazing news out of Anthropik. This is something I have been begging for for ages. And that is that they've finally added web browsing to Claude. Now, Claude is like one of the best models for a lot of different things. And this web browsing that was missing was something I have personally complained about for years at this point, ever since I believe like over a year ago, when they first added browse, like Anthropoc didn't. This was literally to the point where I would recommend people not use Anthropoc or get into its ecosystem for a lot of use cases because it didn't have the feature.

0:29So they've added the feature. There's some caveats to this, and they kind of talked about why they didn't have it for so long, why it's coming now, but there's also some other theories. I'm going to be getting into all of that on the podcast today. The first thing I wanted to say is that if you're not already a member, I would love to have you as a member of my AI Hustle school community. So every single week, I create an exclusive podcast content that essentially teaches people how to grow and scale their businesses using AI tools. So there's a paid community. It's$19 a month. In the past, I've had this thing at like$100 a month, but it's at a discount right now.

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1:34And the reason why is because they essentially said that this thing was it's like this self-contained AI and they didn't want out in the real world. So it almost came at like a it was sort of like a safety thing. And because Anthropic is branded as like the safe AI, they're like, look, we have this contained AI. It's not going to go out and like search the internet. That made a lot of people happy. It also made a lot of people upset because it was just very unusable. So who has access to this? I hopped on today and was like, sweet, let me use Anthropic. I don't have a premium account with Anthropic if I'm being 100 % honest because of this fact, because it didn't have access to this.

2:10So I have a premium Grok and premium chat GPT and premium like everything else. But this, I was like, ah, you know, it doesn't have that. But, you know, I use perplexity to search the web if I need to. So I was like kind of got replaced and you can use Anthropic and perplexity together. Oh, I don't have a premium account. When I hopped onto a cloud to try it out today, I realized it wasn't available. So it is only available in preview. So they're not even saying this is full. There's just a preview for paid cloud users and only in the United States. So they have a whole blog post where they talked kind of all about this.

2:41But in any case, it is out now. you can actually get access to it. Essentially how this looks is when you do a search, it's going to kind of like ChatGPT or a lot of the others pull up a web search below its response. So if you ask it a question, it'll give you kind of its ChatGPT or its AI response. And then it goes, scrapes the web and gives you a summary. This is similar to what we're seeing with other things. They gave a few use cases. They're like, I don't know, it's kind of funny to me because they're like, here's some great use cases you can use it for. And it's like, as if people that actually need any of those use cases haven't just been using ChatGPT up at this point.

3:14They're like, Like for your sales team, it can transform account planning and drive higher win rates through informed conversations with prospects. And financial analysis can assess current market data, earning reports and industry trends to make better investment decisions. Like this is these are kinds of things that was like a nonstarter for me. If I'm being 100 percent honest, it's like I want to know, OK, what's going on with like X, Y and Z today? And like it doesn't know. So I would use Grok for that because it kind of has access to like the X API and could gift you like all the tweets for the day or whatever.

3:42and then chat GPT which I'm like hey like I'm trying to plan a trip like what's the weather like in Barcelona today blah blah blah and you know Claude would be like oh I don't have access to it so like there's all these use cases that I think just got shipped other places and I think this is the real reason why Anthropic has added this right because originally this was all about safety and now it seems like they don't really I mean it's not like they don't care about safety I think they realize that that safety concern of an AI be connected to the internet is probably overblown. Every other competitor is doing it.

4:12Every other competitor is, you know, gaining ground on them. This isn't something fundamentally difficult to do. Google has APIs. There's a lot of these web browsers that have APIs that you can plug in directly to, or, you know, they probably built their own, but like, there's a lot of options out there. This isn't like a technically insanely challenging thing. And so I think they knew they kind of needed to do this, or they're going to lose a lot of ground. You know, you can ask it questions like what major event is taking place this week in the tech industry, and it's going to give you an actual rundown on this, whereas before it couldn't.

4:43So this is what they said in their blog post. They said, when Claude incorporates information from the web in its responses, it provides direct citations so you can easily fact check sources. This is something everyone else is doing, but I'm happy that they're doing this as well. They also said, quote, instead of finding search results yourself, Claude processes and delivers relevant sources in a conversational format. This enhancement expands Claude's extensive knowledge base with real-time insights, providing answers based on more current information. Of course, right? It's a no-brainer at this point.

5:11This makes perfect sense why they would be doing this. And this is coming after we have not just ChatGPT, but Google Gemini and even Mistral, right? The open source French AI model, their Le Chat model has access to the internet. So like we're getting every competitor in the book, tiny, I'm not, I mean, Mistral, I hate to call it a tiny company, but like compared to how much, Mistral might've raised a billion dollars or so, anthropic is raised like way more than that so these are very different scales of companies and when the smaller ones start to do it like you know that claude really has to do it so just because they were quote-unquote designed to be self-contained i think because there's so much competition it's so competitive that now what are the controversies around this well if you go and ask tech crunch what is going on you know with anthropics claude is this good or bad this is the paragraph you'll get out of TechCrunch, and I quote.

6:20A separate report from The Guardian found that ChatGPT's search-focused experience can be fooled into generating completely misleading summaries.

6:50cloud so much more usable so i'm excited to actually dig in and use cloud when it has new features my development team has specifically told me this is one of the big drawbacks they love Claude and they still do use it as their number one coding source, but they have told me the biggest drawback is it doesn't have access to the internet. So now this is out in the open. This is fantastic. Great news and kudos to everyone at Anthropic. Thanks for tuning into the podcast today. If you enjoyed the episode, I would love it if you could leave me a review for the episode. And if you're interested in joining the AI Hustle School community, check that out in the link below.

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