Several of the largest AI companies have changed tactics to get more users on board.
Let’s check out which formerly paywalled AI tools are now usable for free.
However, the BBC showsless than 2% of British peopleuse ChatGPT daily.
Some regular people use these tools, but they could attract many more users from this massive untapped market.
Part of these companies' strategy is to start offering more tools for their free tier of users.
Historically, free users could get a “taste” of the engine in different ways.
Anthropic, for example,lets users have a few messages to Claudebefore they’re locked off.
It’s an excellent time to be a free AI user.
Previously, free users were limited to using the previous model andblocked from internet-enabled searches.
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Now, free users can explain what they want to ChatGPT using images and snapshots.
In another previous iteration, ChatGPT released what they called “Custom GPTs.”
These were LLMs that were trained to do a particular thing really well.
The base response system is much better, using 200,000 tokens as opposed to the previous 100,000.
The doubled token size means Claude can reliably analyze as much as 150 pages of text.
This might even makewriting a novel with AIthat much easier.
The API tool system has been on developer wish lists for some time.
Anthropic have also noted that this version of Claudehas a much lower hallucination ratethan the previous one.
Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic seems to be tailoring its free-use tier to attract more developers to use Claude.
Only time will tell if they see any rewards from these improvements offered on the free tier.
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