Anthropic touts new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Artificial quality laboratory Anthropic connected Tuesday unveiled 10 caller ways for concern customers to plug successful its exertion to cardinal ‌areas of their work, weeks aft different releases sparked an assertive selloff ‌of accepted bundle institution shares.

The San Francisco-based startup said its plug-ins could present assistance with concern banking tasks ​like reviewing deals, wealth-management tasks specified arsenic portfolio investigation and quality resource-related tasks specified arsenic making new-hire materials bespeak a brand's code and policies.

Other items that Anthropic touted included plug-ins for backstage equity, engineering and design.

Backed by Alphabet's Google and Amazon.com, the laboratory besides said ‌it was releasing ways to ⁠connect its Claude AI to immoderate commonly utilized concern tools similar Google Calendar and Gmail.

The rapid-fire releases this twelvemonth amusement however Anthropic is ⁠seeking to get up of the battalion successful selling progressively autonomous AI to the lucrative endeavor marketplace up of a wide expected nationalist offering.

Anthropic faces contention from Google itself, OpenAI and ​Elon Musk's ​xAI, among others. The startup has antecedently said ​it has not decided astir going public.

Last ‌month, Anthropic's merchandise of a ineligible plug-in ignited an $830 cardinal planetary selloff successful bundle and services stocks - including immoderate of the startup's partners - implicit six trading days arsenic investors disquieted that AI-powered automation could undercut ample chunks of those companies' gross streams.

Scott White, Anthropic's caput of merchandise for enterprise, said the extremity was for Claude to present ‌better outcomes for customers, not regenerate them.

"It's not a ​product that's trying to ain each workflow," helium ​said successful an interview. "We're providing infrastructure ​and quality truthful our partners oregon our customers tin bring their ‌business knowledge, their expertise, their trusted relationships ​and their customers to ​the equation."

Anthropic said its caller plug-ins were developed jointly with partners, among them LSEG and FactSet. It besides said companies including Thomson Reuters, which owns Reuters ​news agency, and RBC Wealth ‌Management were utilizing AI agents powered by Anthropic.

Companies tin physique and negociate their ​own plug-ins arsenic well, Anthropic said.

(Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin and Deepa Seetharaman ​in San Francisco; Editing by Kevin Buckland)

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