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Anthropic, which was formed by a group of safety-conscious defectors from OpenAI, spent 2023 establishing itself as one of just a handful of envelope-pushing developers of commercial AI models.The company raised almost $7 billion in 2023 (from Amazon and Google, among others), and last October it told investors that it was generating revenue at a $100 million annualized run rate. In July, the startup launched the second major release of its LLM, dubbed Claude 2, with improved performance on standardized tests, a larger…

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.Version 3 of Claude launched this month. It’s a powerful new alternative to ChatGPT.AI tools are evolving quickly. Claude, Google’s improved Gemini and Microsoft’s new Copilot have joined ChatGPT in creating a remarkably competitive AI arena. Read on for an update on about Claude, noting its strengths and limitations and some suggested ways to use it.What is Claude?Claude is an…

Apple is in talks to build Google Gemini into the iPhone’s next operating system, powering Siri and other AI-enabled features, according to reports from Bloomberg on Monday. The iPhone maker reportedly held discussions with multiple AI companies about powering iOS 18 with a competitor’s technology, including OpenAI.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIApple has largely been absent from the AI conversation in 2023, leading to great speculation that the iPhone giant may be falling behind Google…

The latest step forward in the development of large language models (LLMs) took place earlier this week, with the release of a new version of Claude, the LLM developed by AI company Anthropic—whose founders left OpenAI in late 2020 over concerns about the company’s pace of development.But alongside the release of Claude 3, which sets new records in popular tests used to assess the prowess of LLMs, there was a second, more unusual innovation. Two days after Anthropic released Claude 3 to the world, Amanda Askell, a…

After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.Some of its conflicts stem from decisions made well before the debut of ChatGPT, particularly its unusual shift from an idealistic nonprofit to a big business backed by billions of dollars in investments. It's too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat back a barrage of lawsuits from Elon Musk, The New York…

The battle between AI chatbots is more than a two-horse race. Anthropic, the company formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in several key industry benchmarks. It even hit "near-human" levels on some tasks, the company wrote in a blog.There are three new chatbots under the Claude 3 umbrella, including Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Sonnet powers the Claude.ai chatbot and is offered for free with an email sign-in. Meanwhile, Opus is the largest and…

Anthropic, a major player in generative artificial intelligence, announced new models to fuel its Claude AI chatbot, the company said on Monday, as ChatGPT faces more rivals.The company said three new AI models - called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku - were its most high-performing tools yet and were industry leading in terms of their ability to match human intelligence. Founded in 2021, Anthropic was created by former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and has been funded by Google and partnered with…

Anthropic announced on Monday a new family of AI models, collectively called the Claude 3 model family. As is commonly done, the company released three different sizes of models, each with a varying balance of intelligence, speed, and cost. The largest of the new models, called “Opus,” outperforms both OpenAI’s and Google’s most advanced models, GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra, respectively, on tests measuring undergraduate level expert knowledge (MMLU), graduate level expert reasoning (GPQA) as well as basic mathematics (GSM8k),…

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini’s most advanced models, potentially crowning a new king in the AI world. Anthropic released three tiers – Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku – which range from most to least capable.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Opus shows us the outer limits of what’s possible with generative AI,” said Anthropic in a blog…

SAN FRANCISCO — In May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest artificial intelligence startups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce. It was the beginning of an astonishing funding spree. By August, Anthropic had landed $100 million from two Asian telecoms. Then Amazon committed $4 billion to it, followed by $2 billion more from Google. This month, the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures closed a deal to invest $750 million in Anthropic. All told, the AI startup hauled in $7.3 billion in a…