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anthropical islaunching a new APIthat allows its Claude AI models to search across the vane . Developers using it can build Claude - powered apps that deliver up - to - date info , the company said in a press dismissal published Wednesday .

The rollout of the API come as AI company look to augment their models in various ways that might attract newfangled customers to their platforms . For its part , Anthropiclast weekdebuted a tool to connect practical software to Claude as well as an expanded “ deep enquiry ” capability that rent Claude search enterprisingness account , website , and more .

“ developer can now augment Claude ’s comprehensive cognition with current , tangible - world information by enabling the web search tool when making requests to [ our ] API , ” Anthropic wrote in its release . “ With internet search , developer can now build up AI solutions that tap into current information without needing to manage their own entanglement hunt infrastructure . ”

Web search is now available on our API.Developers can augment Claude ’s comprehensive cognition with up - to - appointment data.pic.twitter.com/pRQf0ZKXUZ

When the web search API is enable , Claude will use “ reasoning ” capability to set whether a given request would benefit from up - to - date information or specialized noesis . If Claude make up one’s mind to search the web , it ’ll generate a lookup query , retrieve resultant , analyze them , and ply an result with acknowledgment .

Claude can also refine its queries and conduct multiple searches , using earlier result to inform subsequent queries . developer can customize this behavior as well as specify domains from which Claude is allowed and not let to look . Devs can also provide or prohibit web search use at the constitution level , Anthropic says .

Pricing starts at $ 10 per 1,000 lookup . lookup works with Anthropic ’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet , new Claude 3.5 Sonnet , and Claude 3.5 Haiku model .

In related to news , Anthropic is bringing web search toClaude Code , its dick that allows devs to rap Claude to complete various rally chore . With web lookup enable , Claude Code can get at current API support , technical articles , and other information on exploitation tools and libraries .

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Claude Code remains in beta as a enquiry preview .

Updated 4:16 p.m. Pacific : Added pricing and model compatibility information .