OpenAI rival Anthropic gives its Claude AI users ‘power’ to create their own personal assistant

Anthropic to introduce a new feature for Claude, its AI chatbot Claude. The new feature will now allow you to create an email assistant, a bot to purchase shoes, or other personalized solutions.

The new tool is called “tool use” (or the nerdier “function calling”), and it hooks up to any external API of your choosing. For example, “The tool can analyze data to create personalized product recommendations based on a user’s purchase history or provide quick responses to customer inquiries, such as tracking order status or offering real-time technical support,” Anthropic explained.