Anthropic's Claude Can Now Search The Web

PLUS: How to convert Audio to text, using Assembly AI

Author

Shawn Chauhan
March 22, 2025

🤖 Welcome back, AI enthusiasts.

📰 In today’s Unbound:

  • 📱Anthropic's Claude expands its knowledge with real-time web search

  • 🤖Gemini free tier users can now generate podcasts with AI hosts using Deep Research

  • 🔍 From Audio to Insights: Extracting Key Data with AssemblyAI

  • 🛠️ Evaluating AI with AI: How Selene 1 Compares to Other Evaluation Tools🔥 Trending AI Tools and Jobs

  • 💰 AI Finance and Funding

  • 📰 More AI & Tech News

🚀 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI NEWS

© Search Engine Journal

🔍 The Inside Scoop: Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude, now features real-time web search, allowing it to provide more accurate and up-to-date responses. This enhancement enables Claude to cite sources directly, improving transparency and reliability in information retrieval.

🔑 Key Details:

  • Claude can now search the internet to deliver real-time, relevant insights.

  • It provides direct citations for sourced information, making fact-checking easier.

  • Web search enhances various fields, from sales and finance to research and shopping.

  • Paid users in the U.S. can access this feature now, with broader availability coming soon.

  • Users can enable web search in settings when using Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

🔗 The relevance: With AI models evolving rapidly, real-time web search brings Claude closer to acting as a true research assistant, integrating the latest information into responses. AI enthusiasts now have a tool that not only generates content but also verifies and refines it with dynamic, sourced insights.

AI NEWS

©Ars Technica

🔍 The Inside Scoop: Google’s Gemini app now allows free-tier users to generate AI-hosted podcasts using Deep Research. This feature transforms in-depth AI-generated reports into conversational audio summaries, making research more accessible and engaging.

🔑 Key Features:

  • Gemini can now convert Deep Research reports into AI-hosted podcast-style conversations.

  • Audio Overviews were first introduced in NotebookLM and later expanded to Gemini.

  • Users can guide and interact with AI hosts for a more customized listening experience.

  • The feature is available to both free-tier and Advanced Gemini users.

  • Reports are generated by scanning the web and compiling detailed, AI-curated insights.

🔗 The relevance: As AI-generated content continues to evolve, Gemini’s podcast-style summaries offer a dynamic way to consume complex research. AI enthusiasts can now experience an interactive and auditory approach to information synthesis, bridging the gap between text-based analysis and engaging discussions.

AI TUTORIAL

© Marcus Olsson

🔍 The Inside Scoop: This tutorial explains how to convert audio to text using AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text API, allowing developers to automate transcription with high accuracy. The guide covers API setup, audio file submission, and retrieving transcriptions using Python.

🔑 5-step guide on how to use TalkMe AI for language practice

  1. Get Your API Key: Sign up on AssemblyAI, create an account, and copy your API key.

  2. Install Dependencies: Install Python'srequests library to interact with the API (pip install requests)

  3. Upload Your Audio File: Send your audio file to AssemblyAI’s servers and receive an upload URL.

  4. Submit for Transcription: Use the upload URL to request transcription through the API.

  5. Retrieve & Save Transcription: Check the API response until the process is complete, then save the text output.

Benefit: TalkMe AI provides a personalized, AI-powered learning experience that helps users practice their language skills in an engaging and effective way. By simulating real conversations and offering immediate corrections, it aims to build users' confidence and fluency in speaking a new language.

AI TOOL REVIEW

© Atla AI

🔍 The Inside Scoop: Selene 1 is an advanced LLM-as-a-Judge designed to evaluate AI applications with state-of-the-art accuracy. Offering customizable evaluation metrics and precise scoring, it helps developers fine-tune models with actionable feedback.

🔑 Key Features:

  • Superior Accuracy: Outperforms leading models in AI evaluation benchmarks for reliable assessments.

  • Customizable Evaluations: Users can define evaluation criteria and tailor scoring for specific use cases.

  • Seamless API Integration: Easily integrates into workflows to generate eval scores with actionable insights.

🔗 The relevance:

  • Enhances AI Model Performance: Provides detailed critiques to optimize LLM outputs for accuracy and reliability.

  • Supports Custom AI Development: Enables fine-tuned alignment for specialized AI applications, from RAG to automation.

🚀 AI EXTRAS

 

AI Tools 🛠

  • AI Agents for Machines – Build AI-driven agents that read sensors and control actuators for seamless machine interaction.

  • ApertureDB – A unified vector + graph database designed to simplify multimodal AI data management at scale.

  • Reranker by Contextual AI – The first instruction-following reranker that customizes retrieval ranking with unmatched accuracy.

  • Illustration.app – Instantly generate custom vector illustrations for websites, apps, and marketing with AI.

AI Jobs 💼

AI Finance and Funding 💰

  • Kredit Hero Launches AI-Powered KreditCheck™ to Help SMEs Secure Funding 💰

  • Elon Musk’s xAI and Nvidia join BlackRock and Microsoft’s $30bn AI fund

⚡ QUICK HITS