January 24th.Anthropic The company's newest product, Citations APIAs the name suggests.This feature can provide a reference source for AI-generated content thatand embed a link to the original document, associating the AI answer with a user-supplied document (such as an email or PDF). The feature is live on Anthropic's API and Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform.
Note: Developers currently rely on complex cues to embed references in the AI output, an approach that typically leads to inconsistent results and a high demand for cue engineering.
"Citations" simplifies this process by allowing developers to attach source documentation directly to the API's context window, and Claude automatically cites relevant sentences and sections from these sources in his responses, reducing the risk of disillusionment and increasing accountability.
The "Citations" API simplifies the development process by eliminating the need for custom cueing projects, and allowing AI-generated content to be precisely linked to specific sentences and paragraphs in the source document. Internal evaluations show that "Citations" improves recall accuracy by up to 15% over custom implementations.
