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Anthropic’s Claude.ai chatbot introduced a Learning style this week, making it available to everyone.

When users turn the Learning style feature on, the Claude.ai chatbot employs a Socratic approach, guiding students through questions instead of providing them with straight answers.

The experience here is similar to the one Anthropic offers with Claude for Education.

OpenAI features a similar solution, called Study Mode, and Google does so with the Guided Learning functionality.

In addition, Anthropic is offering on Claude Code an Explanatory mode, which generates summaries as it works, allowing the user a chance to better understand what it’s doing.

Drew Bent, education lead at Anthropic, explained, “Learning mode is designed to help all of those audiences not just complete tasks, but also help them grow and learn in the process and better understand their code base.”

In practice, a “really good engineering manager” won’t necessarily write most of the code on a project, but he will develop a keen eye for how everything fits together and what sections of code might need some more work.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude will be offered for free to the Federal Government.

The move comes after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have added to the General Services Administration’s list of approved AI vendors that can sell their services to civilian federal agencies.

They have been granted up to $200 million by the Department of Defense to advance U.S. national security capabilities.

In the case of Anthropic, this company has decided to extend the offer to “all three branches” of the U.S. government, including the legislative and judiciary branches, for one year.

“We believe the U.S. public sector should have access to the most advanced AI capabilities to tackle complex challenges, from scientific research to constituent services,” Anthropic said in a statement.

Anthropic will offer both Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government. The latter supports the security baseline FedRAMP High workloads, so that federal workers can use Claude for handling sensitive unclassified work.

In addition to being certified for FedRAMP High, Claude exhibits its existing secure infrastructure via partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Palantir.

In its press release, the company noted that Claude is already being used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to accelerate scientific discoveries, and also by the District of Columbia Department of Health to help residents access health services in multiple languages.

OpenAI’s official FedRAMP High offering is tied to Azure Government Cloud only. This company said that it is working to reduce its reliance on Azure to embrace a more diversified infrastructure approach.