Claude on Android: Anthropic’s AI chatbot expands its reach

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Claude on Android: Anthropic's AI chatbot expands its reach
Claude on Android: Anthropic's AI chatbot expands its reach. Image credit: Anthropic.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet chatbot, its most powerful model to date, has evolved into the AI assistant that can speak Android.

It’s bringing some serious firepower with it. And the best part? It’s free to use on any of Anthropic’s plans. Even the basic tier.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Android

Now, if you’re not familiar with the 3.5 version and you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, let me break it down for you:

This isn’t a chatbot to be scoffed at.

It’s been a gaming-changer for me personally. While I still use ChatGPT-4o daily, I use Claude for anything content-related. It sounds more ‘human’, too.

More on that later. We’re veering off-topic.

Back to Claude on Android.

What can it do?

Some of that serious firepower I mentioned earlier includes:

  • Multi-platform support,
  • Vision capabilities,
  • Multilingual processing, and
  • Advanced reasoning.
Claude on Android: Anthropic's AI chatbot expands its reach.
Image credit Anthropic

Whether you’re drafting a business proposal between meetings, translating menus while traveling, or just need help coming up with the perfect comeback for your group chat, Claude’s got your back.

(I’ve used these chatbots for that, too, you know… Writing comebacks… Don’t ask.)

In other words, it’s like having a super-smart, multilingual, eagle-eyed assistant in your pocket.

A legal headache?

But here’s where it gets really interesting.

Remember all that hullabaloo about AI companies illegally accessing YouTube content to train their models?

Well, with Google owning both Android and YouTube, things could get… spicy.

It’s like inviting your ex to your wedding… Sure, everything seems fine now, but who knows what drama might unfold as the night becomes darker and full of terrors?

Claude versus ChatGPT

If it’s not clear by now: I love both, and don’t necessarily want to choose one over the other. But I’ll say this: I use them differently.

Claude is stupidly good at writing content, especially after you’ve spent hours training it on how you write and more importantly, who you are. How you talk, what you believe in.

It can also handle larger files and larger volumes of text.

ChatGPT, on the other hand, is good for research and brainstorming because its rate-limit is more forgiving. I can have back-and-forth conversations with Chat.

WATCH: Claude as your writing partner

With Claude, I’d have to batch my content. As in, “Hey Claude, lets do all my social media posts for this week IN ONE GO. For Monday, I’m thinking…”

And then before I know it, that irritating disclaimer appears: “You have 3 messages remaining until 7PM.” And it’s only 10AM now.

You get the idea.

Instead of it doing each post in a separate prompt, I get more done by batching it. But the idea generation and brainstorming for those posts happened in ChatGPT.

When I have a random question (I have an actual thread titled ‘Random Questions’) or need help drafting an email, I got to ChatGPT.

Meal plan brainstorming, language tutoring, AI image generation with Dall-E, summarizing articles, asking brand design help and guidance, that’s all happening in ChatGPT.

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Cheryl Kahla explores the intersections of tech and society. She covers emerging tech trends, AI, science, and gaming. Outside of writing, Cheryl indulges in martial arts and debating the merits of AI with her cat, Gotham. He is indifferent to the subject.

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