• Home
  • Ai
  • Ai News
  • Anthropic Introduces a Citations Feature to Make Claude’s Responses More Reliable

Anthropic Introduces a Citations Feature to Make Claude’s Responses More Reliable

Citations lets Claude AI models ground their answers in any source document.

Anthropic Introduces a Citations Feature to Make Claude’s Responses More Reliable

Photo Credit: Anthropic

Anthropic said Citations uses its standard token-based pricing model

Highlights
  • Citations is an API-specific feature aimed at developers
  • The feature is available on Anthropic API and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI
  • Citations will enable developers to create document summarisation tools
Advertisement

Anthropic introduced a new application programming interface (API) feature on Thursday to let developers ground the responses generated by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Dubbed Citations, the feature allows developers to restrict the output generation of the Claude family of AI models to source documents. This is aimed at improving the reliability and accuracy of the AI-generated responses. The AI firm has already provided the feature to companies such as Thomson Reuters (for the CoCounsel platform) and Endex. Notably, the feature is available without any additional cost.

Anthropic Introduces a New Grounding Feature

Generative AI models are typically prone to errors and hallucination. This occurs because of the massive datasets they have to look through to find responses to user queries. Adding web searches to the equation only makes it trickier for large language models (LLMs) to avoid inaccurate information as they use relatively basic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mechanisms.

AI companies, which also build specialised tools, often restrict data access to the LLMs to improve accuracy and reliability. Some examples of such tools include Gemini in Google Docs, AI-powered Writing Assist tools in Samsung and Apple smartphones, and PDF analysis tools in Adobe Acrobat. However, creating such a layer is not possible in API as developers build a wide range of tools that have different data requirements.

To solve this problem, Anthropic introduced the Citations feature for its API. Detailed in a newsroom post, the feature lets Claude ground its responses in source documents. This means Claude AI models can provide detailed references to the exact paragraph and sentences it took the information to generate the output. The AI firm claims this tool will make the AI-generated responses easily verifiable and more trustworthy.

With this, users can add source documents to the context window, and Claude will automatically cite the source in its output wherever it infers them from the source material. As a result, developers will not have to rely upon complex prompts to ask Claude to include source information, which the company acknowledged as an inconsistent and cumbersome method.

Anthropic claimed that with Citations, developers will be able to easily build AI solutions for document summarisation, tools to answer complex queries based on long documents, as well as customer support systems.

Notably, the company stated that Citations uses Anthropic's standard token-based pricing model and users will not pay for output tokens that return the quoted text. However, there might be an extra charge for additional input tokens that are used to process the source documents. Citations is currently available for the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku models.

Comments

For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube.

Akash Dutta
Akash Dutta is a Senior Sub Editor at Gadgets 360. He is particularly interested in the social impact of technological developments and loves reading about emerging fields such as AI, metaverse, and fediverse. In his free time, he can be seen supporting his favourite football club - Chelsea, watching movies and anime, and sharing passionate opinions on food. More
Oppo Find N5 Leaked Live Images Suggest Thin Profile, Slimmer Camera Bump
Facebook Gadgets360 Twitter Share Tweet Snapchat LinkedIn Reddit Comment google-newsGoogle News

Advertisement

Follow Us
© Copyright Red Pixels Ventures Limited 2025. All rights reserved.
Trending Products »
Latest Tech News »