📚 A practical guide to Claude: its development, capabilities, plans, platforms, privacy considerations, and the limitations that matter when comparing AI assistants.
Claude is Anthropic’s general-purpose AI assistant and changing family of large language models. It supports conversation, writing, summarization, research, document analysis, coding, data work, file creation, and tool-assisted workflows through consumer applications, developer APIs, and cloud platforms. Its documented strengths include long-context work, structured writing, coding, and inspectable outputs, while its probabilistic nature means that factual claims, citations, calculations, and code require appropriate human review.