Anthropic releases Claude 2.1 with a 200K-token context

Claude 2.1 released, with a 200K-token context

Why it matters

The context-length race entered the 200,000-token range

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-2-1

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