{"id":13,"date":"2026-02-10T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:15:35","slug":"project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/project\/","title":{"rendered":"Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claude_(language_model)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claude_(language_model)\">Link<\/a>)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract:<\/em> Introducing the Claude 3 family, a set of state-of-the-art AI models. Their &#8220;Constitutional AI&#8221; training method, which prioritizes safety and steerability, benchmarks their performance in reasoning, coding, and multilingual understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is it?<\/strong> Claude is a highly advanced Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Anthropic. Rather than just blindly generating text or doing all the work for you, it acts more like a collaborative partner or tutor. Because it is guided by a strict ethical rulebook known as &#8220;Constitutional AI,&#8221; Claude is specifically designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless\u2014meaning it will often guide you through learning a concept rather than just handing you a finished essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background &amp; Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Updates:<\/strong> The project is an ongoing, highly active development. Anthropic updates Claude very frequently, regularly releasing entirely new generations (like the Claude 2, Claude 3, and 3.5 model families) to continuously improve its reasoning, coding skills, and safety guardrails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">        <strong>Who &amp; Where:<\/strong> Anthropic is an AI safety and research company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded by a team of former OpenAI researchers (including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei) who wanted to focus heavily on AI safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">        <strong>When &amp; Status:<\/strong> The company was founded in 2021, and the first version of Claude was released to the public in early 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.52.00-PM-1024x793.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.52.00-PM-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.52.00-PM-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.52.00-PM-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.52.00-PM-1536x1189.png 1536w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.52.00-PM.png 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">My experiments using Claude to perform literary analysis (top) and write code for data mining (bottom).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.53.27-PM-1024x450.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.53.27-PM-1024x450.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.53.27-PM-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.53.27-PM-768x337.png 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.53.27-PM-1536x674.png 1536w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/ClaudeCS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-12.53.27-PM-2048x899.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic\u2019s Claude(Link) Abstract: Introducing the Claude 3 family, a set of state-of-the-art AI models. Their &#8220;Constitutional AI&#8221; training method, which prioritizes safety and steerability, benchmarks their performance in reasoning, coding, and multilingual understanding. What is it? Claude is a highly advanced Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Anthropic. 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