Unlocking the archive with generative AI: How The Chronicle of Higher Education built Chron with AWS
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The Chronicle of Higher Education developed Chron, a generative AI-powered search tool using Amazon Bedrock, to unlock insights from its extensive archive of higher education reporting.
- Chron allows users to search decades of authoritative reporting on higher education topics
- Developed in collaboration with AWS over six months
- Uses Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.5 large language model for accurate responses
- Covers over 140,000 articles dating back to the 1990s
- Provides cited answers from The Chronicle's trusted content
- Launched in beta in December 2024 and fully operational by March 2025
- Has already answered more than 20,000 user queries
The tool demonstrates how generative AI can provide deep, credible access to specialized knowledge while empowering researchers and professionals in higher education.
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