May 1 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence startup

Anthropic launched a version of its latest chatbot technology

aimed at businesses on Wednesday, jumping into the race to

capture corporate dollars.

The San Francisco-based firm, backed by Alphabet

and Amazon.com ( AMZN ), in March released a family of

artificial intelligence models called Claude 3 that it says

outperforms those from rivals such as Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed

OpenAI and Google.

On Wednesday, it released an app for Apple's iPhones that

will offer Claude 3 to businesses at a rate of $30 per user per

month. They can sign up for a plan with a minimum of 5 users.

The move sets up more direct competition with OpenAI, which

is also selling a plan aimed at businesses at the same rate. But

Anthropic's new enterprise technology push could also bring it

into competition with its backers Google and Amazon ( AMZN ), who also

want to capture business spending on AI.

Such tensions are already arising elsewhere in the booming

AI sector. Reuters reported last month that OpenAI Chief

Executive Sam Altman pitched his firm's business offering

directly to some of Microsoft's ( MSFT ) biggest customers.

One of Claude 3's biggest features is the ability ingest a

lot of data - about the length of two books - and summarize it,

analyze it or pull out a single piece of data accurately.

Anthropic said it can be used by finance teams to generate

investment reports, engineering teams working on large bases of

code or sales teams collaborating on how to land a large client.

"Claude is particularly good at a combination of structured

and unstructured data," Daniela Amodei, Anthropic's president,

said in an interview.

"So you can upload a chart, a set of documents, like a PDF,

some like Slack exchanges and say, 'Hey, all of these are

talking about an upcoming product launch or recent earnings

report. Can you summarize all of them for me, Claude, and give

me the key highlights or pieces of information?' And Claude can

do that."