Starting today, all Claude.ai users—whether they pay for the service or use it for free—can create and display artifacts across the website and in Android and iOS apps. And that’s an upgrade that ChatGPT is sorely lacking.
To bring you up to speed on this AI bot, Claude is a ChatGPT competitor from Anthropic with similar features—such as the ability to be prompted by text, files, and images, or a combination of the three. However, aside from privacy, there’s not much that really sets it apart from the AI we know—which is perhaps why Claude on iOS saw a total of 157,000 downloads worldwide in its first week, compared to ChatGPT’s 480,000 downloads in its first five days (via TechCrunch).
This is where Artifacts could help Claude finally stand out. As Anthropic explains in a blog post, Artifacts turns conversations with its AI into a “more collaborative experience.” When Artifacts is enabled, Claude opens a separate window that shows you the project it’s helping to build alongside your prompts. This lets you see what your tweaks and changes look like in real time, without the need for a third-party tool.
To enable artifacts, simply navigate to your Claude.AI profile settings by clicking on your initials in the bottom left corner of the screen, then tap “Settings,” then toggle the “Enable artifacts” option on or off. The next time you use Claude, it can start generating artifacts, though there are some restrictions – for example, the content must be “significant and self-contained,” which Anthropic says typically means “over 15 lines of content.” You can take a closer look at Anthropic’s other artifact rules in the official FAQ.
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Examples shown in Artifacts’ announcement video (above) include showing a draft version of a website or digital games like a virtual Rubik’s Cube. If you see features you want to tweak, you can change your prompts and see in real time how they affect what you’re working on. This isn’t offered by ChatGPT and makes the process of iterating on an idea with an AI (especially on mobile) a much easier task.
With the introduction of Artifacts, users on the Free and Pro plans can also publish their Artifacts, which other users can then remix – that is, modify what others have created to suit their own ideas. Users on the Team plan can also share Artifacts, but only with their teammates. This type of collaborative AI design process is also something we haven’t really seen before, and we’re excited to see if Artifacts lives up to Anthropic’s hype.
Still, coupled with its emphasis on privacy, Claude is shaping up to be a true ChatGPT competitor rather than a mere clone. We’ll have to keep an eye on this, but if you’re having trouble with OpenAI’s bot and want to try something new, Claude could be the bot you need.
