Anthropic has just launched its Claude Enterprise subscription, a new AI service that competes directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise.
Claude Enterprise allows businesses to upload internal data to Anthropic's AI chatbot system. Claude is capable of analyzing information, answering relevant questions, creating graphics, simple websites, and even acting as a personal AI assistant for businesses.
The launch of Claude Enterprise puts Anthropic in line with OpenAI, which has deployed multiple versions of ChatGPT before. “Claude has been available to businesses for over a year, despite our product being released later,” said Scott White, Anthropic’s chief product officer. “However, we are meeting customer demand at a rapid pace despite being smaller in scale.”
One highlight of Claude Enterprise is its ability to process contexts of up to 500,000 tokens, twice that of ChatGPT Enterprise . This allows for the analysis of hundreds of pages of documents or long code snippets in a single request. Additionally, Claude Enterprise supports integration with GitHub, which helps synchronize source code for engineering teams, facilitating the development of new features or bug fixes.
Anthropic also offers a variety of enterprise-friendly features like “Projects” and “Artifacts” workspaces where multiple users can upload and edit content together. This is ideal for long-term projects with lots of data and participants.
Like ChatGPT, Anthropic pledges not to use Claude Enterprise customer data to train its AI models, which is highly valued by businesses for information security.
While pricing for Claude Enterprise has not been announced, Scott White says it will cost more than the Team plan ($30/member/month) due to its superior features, including greater context handling and faster processing speeds.
Claude Enterprise has been beta tested with partners like GitLab, Midjourney, and IG Group. But to be a sustainable success, the product needs to attract more businesses to offset the high costs of running an Capital AI model. There is currently no clear evidence that AI developers like Anthropic or OpenAI have made a profit from their enterprise-specific product packages.