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News of the day
1. Anthropic's Claude now draws interactive charts and diagrams on demand, enhancing understanding. This beta feature is available to all users and visualizes complex topics within conversations. → Read more
2. Perplexity AI's 'Personal Computer' is a new AI assistant designed to work tirelessly, handling emails, presentations, and app control for users. → Read more
3. Microsoft launches Copilot Health, an AI assistant integrating wearable, medical, and lab data for personalized health advice, aiming for "medical superintelligence." → Read more
4. Bumble launches 'Bee,' an AI dating assistant that learns user values and goals through chat to offer personalized matches, moving beyond traditional swiping. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
Yesterday, we saw AI being used to dress up propaganda as reliable information. Today, the same technology is showing an entirely different side: making knowledge more readable, more intuitive, more accessible.
Anthropic has just activated a new feature in beta within Claude: the generation of interactive charts and visualizations directly in the conversation thread. No third-party plugin, no export to an external tool. The idea is simple: when you ask a complex question, Claude can now decide, on its own or upon request, that a diagram will be more effective than a paragraph.
Anthropic's canonical example: ask Claude to explain compound interest. You get a clean, interactive calculator, no cookie banner, no auto-playing video. A result that illustrates just how much these models are beginning to compete head-on with the content you used to find on Google.
The feature is available to all users, across all plans, which is a bold strategic choice. Google had launched comparable visualizations on Gemini back in December, but only for Ultra subscribers at $200 a month. OpenAI followed suit last Tuesday with its "dynamic visual explanations," primarily geared toward mathematics and science. Anthropic responds by making it free and general-purpose. On paper, it's the right call.
In practice, limitations exist. Generation time can be slow, between 20 and 30 seconds for some visuals, which breaks the natural rhythm of a conversation. And like any model, Claude makes mistakes: asked to draw an aerial approach diagram for an uncontrolled airfield, it correctly annotated most elements but got the key point of a midfield entry wrong. Rest assured, we're not putting it in charge of air traffic control.
These visualizations are ephemeral, designed to adapt to the flow of discussion, and don't get saved in Claude's permanent artifacts drawer. It's a design choice worth reflecting on: between the tool that produces and the tool that preserves, the line is starting to blur considerably.
Alex.
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