Claude Web Search API: Real-Time AI for Developers
Quick Take: Anthropic launches Claude's web search API at $10/1000 searches, enabling real-time data access for developers. This positions Claude as a plug-and-play research brain while Singapore leads global AI safety consensus.
Anthropic Opens Claude to the Web – Today's AI Brief
TL;DR: Anthropic launches Claude's web search API at $10/1000 searches, enabling real-time data access. Plus Singapore's AI safety consensus and Google's AI Mode updates.
By Dr. Hernani Costa — May 9, 2025
Plus: Singapore's safety blueprint, execs' China warnings, and Google's new AI Mode tricks.
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Anthropic Gives Claude Real-Time Web Search
Anthropic has launched a web-search API that lets its Claude 3-series models pull live information before answering developers' queries. The tool can generate its own search prompts, run multiple passes, and return cited results, saving teams from building search back-ends. Pricing starts at $10 per 1000 searches, and it already works with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, 3.5 Sonnet, and Haiku.
Why it matters: Giving models first-party access to fresh data edges them closer to fully agentic assistants—and turns Claude into a plug-and-play research brain for any product.
Meanwhile, in other corners of the AI world…
Quick Takes
- Singapore unveiled the "Singapore Consensus" at ICLR, rallying U.S., Chinese, and European labs around shared AI-safety research priorities.
- OpenAI, Microsoft, and AMD chiefs told the U.S. Senate that boosting chip exports and infrastructure, not heavier rules, is key to out-innovating China.
- Microsoft just adopted Google's open-source Agent2Agent protocol, cementing A2A as the standard "language" for coordinating fleets of AI agents.
- A new executive order creates a federal task force to integrate AI tools and curricula across U.S. schools.
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AI Mode (Google Search Labs). Now open to everyone in the U.S., AI Mode lets you ask follow-up questions, see live product cards, and pick up past research threads—no wait list required.
That's all for today—keep your GPUs cool, and we'll meet again tomorrow at the same byte time and same byte channel.
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Originally published at First AI Movers. Written by Dr. Hernani Costa, Founder and CEO of First AI Movers.
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