Businesses working with Claude can now access our latest version of Claude Instant, version 1.2, available through our API. Claude Instant is our faster, lower-priced yet still very capable model, which can handle a range of tasks including casual dialogue, text analysis, summarization, and document comprehension. Claude Instant 1.2 incorporates the strengths of our latest model Claude 2 in real-world use cases and shows significant gains in key areas like math, coding, reasoning, and safety. It generates longer, more structured responses and follows formatting instructions better. Instant 1.2 also shows improvements in quote extraction, multilingual capabilities, and question answering.
Notes: speculatively, Anthropic charges 1/10 as much for Claude Instant as Claude 2, so it may have around 1/10 the parameters (Claude 2 parameters are not public info) https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/90df03aed08b794ab03c5a7bf28b2ad9cf26cf3c.pdf