Claude

[klawd, klohd]

noun

1. Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.

2. Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Claude

/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

1. Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

Example Sentences

For seven days in early October, Anthropic’s large language model Claude was the brand-in-residence at the Air Mail newsstand, the physical outpost for the digital magazine founded by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.

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Like any good pop-up seeking to attract New Yorkers, Claude’s involved a variety of free merchandise: coffee cups, postcards, tote bags and matchbooks adorned with designs from Anthropic’s in-house illustrator; baseball caps embroidered with the word “thinking”; and copies of Chief Executive Dario Amodei’s essay, “Machines of Loving Grace,” wrapped in navy cloth and printed on locally sourced and 100% postconsumer recycled paper.

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Claude’s partnership with Air Mail was the physical manifestation of the company’s recent brand campaign called “Keep Thinking,” Sam McAllister, member of staff at Anthropic, told me.

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Claude is the AI “built to help people think through their hardest problems,” according to McAllister.

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In the increasingly commoditized world of LLMs, Anthropic seems to be positioning Claude as something different — a higher-brow AI tool that encourages users to think of problems that can be solved with more information, rather than as a way to outsource their own thinking.

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