Clarity Platform

What is Clarity?

Clarity is Yale’s secure, scalable AI platform that provides Yale faculty, students, and staff access to a range of AI models - including GPT, Claude, and others - to support their work and research. Developed in response to the Yale Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Clarity provides equitable access to a generative AI tool while keeping individual and university data private which also means that conversations are never used to train AI models.

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Introduction to the Clarity Platform

Demo of the Clarity Agent Portal

Key Features

  • Secure Connections: Instead of connecting to AI services directly (which is less secure), Clarity uses private, encrypted connections with proper security credentials. It’s like having a private, guarded tunnel instead of using a public road.  
  • Choice of AI Models: Users can choose different AI models for different tasks such as creating or reviewing code vs. summarizing documents or analyzing data.  
  • Custom Agent Creation: Users with approved use cases can create their own Custom Agent in Clarity, controlling the system prompts, knowledge sources, and user access. 
  • API Keys: Users with approved use cases can request API keys to their Custom Agents for use in applications outside of Clarity. 
  • Built for Scale: Clarity can handle thousands of users across the University without slowing down. 
  • Accessible Design: The Clarity Platform follows accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.1 AA), so it works well for users with disabilities. 

Security

Clarity is appropriate for use with low, moderate, and most high-risk data, with restricted access for use of ePHI in Clarity via specified Health agents and for PHI-approved Custom Agent and API use cases. Use of the web search feature with the Radiate agent is authorized for low-risk data only. Users with external obligations like data use agreements should also make sure their use of Clarity is appropriate. For further details, see Clarity Platform Security and Health Sciences AI Toolkit for ePHI information.

Resources

The following resources help you get started with and learn more about the Clarity platform.

Accessing Clarity

Accessing Clarity is quick and free for the Yale community:  

  1. Open Clarity: Visit the Clarity Platform on any browser.   
  2. Log in with your Yale credentials: Available at no cost to all current Yale students, staff, and faculty with a Yale email address.  
  3. Start a conversation: Type your prompt into the chat box and begin working with an AI agent right away.  

How Do I Get Support?

​If you are experiencing an issue with your use of the Clarity platform that is not addressed by the content on this website, please reach out in the following ways.  

Roadmap

For more information about our future enhancements and platform capabilities, please see Clarity platform’s Roadmap.

Comparing Clarity and Copilot Chat

Attributes Copilot Chat Clarity Platform
AI Models  Uses advanced AI models; model offerings change over time. Provides multiple AI models and featured agents. See the current Clarity agents list.
Web search Available for Low and Moderate Risk data in Yale’s free Copilot Chat. Available in the Radiate featured agent for Low Risk data; see Clarity web search guidance.
File upload  Documents and images can be provided for analysis.
 		 Documents, spreadsheets, images, and other supported formats can be uploaded. See Clarity’s file guidance for a complete list.
  
File upload limits Up to 20 files per conversation, with a maximum of 50 MB per file. No limit on number of file uploads and can upload up to 10 files simultaneously. There is a maximum file size of 512MB per file. In addition, the size of the extracted text (not the size of the original file) cannot exceed 10,000,000 characters.  
File upload from OneDrive Yes Yes
Image generation Yes Yes
Chat limits No limits No limits  
Chat history Conversations can be revisited; Chats are saved for 18 months by default and can be accessed using the chat search feature.   Chats are saved and can be accessed in the chat history panel.  
Costs Free  Free for eligible Yale users
Availability Staff, faculty, and students (18 years of age or above) Staff, faculty, and students  
Data risk classification  Low and Moderate Risk only. High Risk is not approved without a paid license and Work IQ on High risk data, with some restrictions such as ePHI. Refer to Clarity Platform Security and Health Sciences AI Toolkit for more information. Web search is Low Risk only.
Vendor / platform Microsoft The Clarity Platform is built on FoundationaLLM 

For additional details, see Clarity agents, Clarity file guidance, Clarity web search guidance, and Clarity security information.