Anthropic
ZDNET's key takeaways
Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets.
File creation is available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
Pro users will get access in the upcoming weeks.
AI chatbots such as Anthropic's Claude have always been helpful co-creators for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or projects you are working on. However, this typically involved you having to copy and paste the text over -- until now.
On Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude will be able to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slides, and PDFs within the chat interface. Now, all you have to do is describe what you want it to create, and it will get to work, outputting the file.
File creation
As soon as I read the news, I could think of many instances in which this would be helpful. For example, if you are having it edit an essay, when you are satisfied, you could ask it to output in a PDF format that meets the assignment requirements, such as "Double-spaced, Times New Roman, header," which typically takes some time to do alone.
Also: Anthropic will start training Claude on user data - but you don't have to share yours
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