Claude AI Can Digest 75,000 Words in Under a Minute

Imagine being able to read, remember, and understand a whole novel's worth of text or audio in less than 60 seconds.

ChatGPT's "helpful, honest, and harmless" AI rival Claude is now capable of reading, remembering, and analyzing 75,000 words in less than 60 seconds.

Anthropic announced(Opens in a new window) it has expanded Claude's context window from 9,000 to 100,000 tokens, which is roughly 75,000 words. It means entire books and long, dense documents can be fed into Claude very quickly and then the AI can be asked complex questions about them immediately, or provide instant summaries.

As a way of demonstrating how well that works, Anthropic asked Claude to read The Great Gatsby and then set about changing one line in the text to read, "a software engineer that works on machine learning tooling at Anthropic." The Great Gatsby is 72,000 tokens (54,000 words), and when asked to explain what had changed after the sentence tweak, Claude returned the correct answer in just 22 seconds.

This expanded context window isn't just for reading text, though. Claude can consume around six hours of audio using 100,000 tokens, which means it can easily transcribe podcasts and produce summaries from the contents of audio files without any work required by the user.

The use cases for an AI which can consume and understand such vast quantities of information so quickly are wide ranging—a programmer could ask Claude to read developer documentation to get answers to coding questions, dense legislation documents can be fed in and Claude can produce a list of the pros and cons, and research papers can be summarized into a more easily digestible form.

Meanwhile, Meta is using AI to generate text and images for use in ads, and Google is infusing its AI chatbot technology into its traditional search engine experience. Will all this focus on AI lead to a productivity boost, or just leave more of us looking for a new job?

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