Anthropic Cuts Wait Time for Long AI Chats by 35%
Anthropic has released Message Threads for its Messages API. Instead of resending a whole conversation with every turn, AI agents now send only what has changed. For long chats of 500,000 to one million tokens, the wait before the first word appears drops by about 35 percent.
Quick glossaryAnthropic, Messages API, time to first token
- Anthropic
- A US AI company, based in San Francisco, best known for its Claude chatbot and AI models.
- Messages API
- A set of rules that lets software send requests to an AI model and receive its replies.
- time to first token
- The short wait before an AI model starts producing the first piece of its reply.
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