Claude enters the ring with real-time web search, because what the world really needs is another AI hallucinating answers with confidence.
The Move That Nobody Asked For 🤖
Anthropic just launched a web search API for Claude, letting it scrape the internet in real-time. Because clearly, OpenAI’s Perplexity and Google’s existential crisis weren’t enough. Now, Claude can confidently serve you mostly accurate answers while quietly eroding website traffic for publishers. Key “Innovations”:
- “Real-time” results – Because waiting 30 seconds for an AI to hallucinate is so 2023.
- Cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet – At 1/8th the cost, you get 90% of the performance… and 200% of the potential inaccuracies.
- Enterprise-ready – Because nothing screams “trustworthy” like letting an LLM loose on your financial data.
The Real Winners? Nobody. 🎭
- Google: Laughs nervously while counting its $20B Safari deal with Apple.
- Publishers: Brace for another traffic nosedive as AI answers eat their lunch.
- Users: Get to choose between Claude’s polite inaccuracies and Google’s ad-stuffed wasteland. Anthropic’s play here is either genius or desperation—hard to tell. But hey, at least we’ll have three AI models confidently telling us the wrong capital of France. 🍿