--- title: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API | daily.dev description: Anthropic is launching Citations, a new API feature for its Claude AI models that enables verifiable and trustworthy AI-generated responses by grounding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-citations-on-the-anthropic-api-enwmetfsm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic is launching Citations, a new API feature for its Claude AI models that enables verifiable and trustworthy AI-generated responses by grounding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-citations-on-the-anthropic-api-enwmetfsm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ENwMetfSM.png og:image:alt: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic is launching Citations, a new API feature for its Claude AI models that enables verifiable and trustworthy AI-generated responses by grounding answers in source documents. This feature outperforms most custom implementations and is available on the Anthropic API and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Citations can be used in document summarization, complex Q&A, and customer support, offering detailed references to specific sections of source documents. This ensures higher accuracy and reduced hallucination in outputs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-citations-on-the-anthropic-api-enwmetfsm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-citations-on-the-anthropic-api-enwmetfsm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-citations-on-the-anthropic-api-enwmetfsm"},"datePublished":"2025-01-23T23:48:23.503Z","dateModified":"2025-01-23T23:49:12.709Z","description":"Anthropic is launching Citations, a new API feature for its Claude AI models that enables verifiable and trustworthy AI-generated responses by grounding...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3b542b25ca785462c4571a1bad3df69e?_a=AQAEuj9","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3b542b25ca785462c4571a1bad3df69e?_a=AQAEuj9","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-citations-on-the-anthropic-api-enwmetfsm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"tech-news,ai,machine-learning,cloud","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API"}]} ```