Claude 4.5

Ingredient list

1. #1Constitutional AI

   Invented by Anthropic · 2022-12 · Velocity 3y

   “Anthropic's models are trained using Constitutional AI principles for alignment.”

   alignmenthigh
2. #2Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought

   Invented by University of Tokyo · 2022-05 · Velocity 4y

   “Claude demonstrates zero-shot reasoning capabilities without explicit step-by-step prompting.”

   reasoninghigh
3. #3Self-Consistency

   Invented by Google · 2022-03 · Velocity 4y

   “Claude 4.5 shows improved accuracy on complex reasoning tasks through refined reasoning processes.”

   reasoningmedium
4. #4Chain-of-Thought Prompting

   Invented by Google · 2022-01 · Velocity 4y

   “Claude 4.5 demonstrates step-by-step reasoning in complex tasks, showing chain-of-thought capabilities.”

   reasoninghigh
5. #5Instruction Tuning (FLAN)

   Invented by Google · 2021-09 · Velocity 4y

   “Claude models are instruction-tuned to follow natural language instructions effectively.”

   traininghigh
6. #6Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE)

   Invented by Zhuiyi Technology · 2021-04 · Velocity 5y

   “Anthropic's Claude models use rotary position embeddings (RoPE) for positional encoding.”

   architecturemedium
7. #7Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

   Invented by Meta AI · 2020-05 · Velocity 6y

   “Claude supports retrieval-augmented generation through file uploads and context window expansion.”

   retrievalhigh
8. #8Transformer Self-Attention

   Invented by Google · 2017-06 · Velocity 9y

   “Claude is built on transformer architecture with self-attention mechanisms.”

   architecturehigh