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Amazon pours additional $2.75bn into AI startup Anthropic

Amazon invests $2.75bn more in Anthropic, totaling $4bn investment. Collaboration focuses on AI development. Anthropic to use AWS as cloud provider and Amazon's custom chips. [ more ]

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Amazon finishes pumping $4 billion into Anthropic

Amazon concluded a $4 billion investment in Anthropic.

Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for future models. [ more ]

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Tech industry

A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Challenges OpenAI and Google With New Chatbot

Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus chatbot outperforms leading competitors in various benchmark tests.

Anthropic's founders were key players in pioneering generative A.I. technology at OpenAI. [ more ]

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Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to Its Stake in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic

Amazon increases investment in Anthropic to $2.75 billion, signaling competition in A.I. industry.

FTX sheds its stake in Anthropic as Amazon deepens partnership, showcasing the growth of A.I. start-up. [ more ]

TechCrunch

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment | TechCrunch

Amazon invests $2.75 billion in Anthropic, hitting the $4B maximum investment mark.

Amazon and Microsoft invest in AI models due to lack of internal development capability. [ more ]

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Anthropic now lets kids use its AI tech -- within limits | TechCrunch

AI startup Anthropic is now allowing minors to use generative AI tools with safety features and compliance with regulations. [ more ]

Ars Technica

"The king is dead"-Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time

Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus LLM surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena.

Diversity in AI vendors showcased as Anthropic's Haiku and Opus outperforming GPT-4. [ more ]

VentureBeat

Beyond human intelligence: Claude 3.0 and the quest for AGI

Anthropic unveiled Claude 3.0 chatbot model, setting new AI standard.

Claude 3 shows progress towards artificial general intelligence, raising questions on ethics and human-machine relationship. [ more ]

Futurism

Researcher Startled When AI Seemingly Realizes It's Being Tested

Claude 3 Opus AI exhibits signs of self-awareness during a test.

Experts question attributing humanlike traits to AI models. [ more ]

Hackernoon

Is AGI Getting Closer? Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus Model Shows Glimmers of Metacognitive Reasoning | HackerNoon

AI language model testing by Anthropic suggests significant potential

Evaluation technique 'Needle in a Haystack' aims for advanced cognitive skills [ more ]

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New AI Claude 3 Declares That It's Alive and Fears Death

Anthropic releases Claude 3 LLMs competing with OpenAI and Google

Claude 3 models include Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus with Opus available via subscription [ more ]

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Data science

Anthropic goes after iPhone users with Claude 3 app

Anthropic launches Claude chatbot iOS app with impressive features and introduces a paid Teams plan. [ more ]

NBC News

Move over, ChatGPT: AI startup Anthropic unveils new models that challenge Big Tech

Anthropic's new AI models, Claude 3, outperform industry-leading AI programs like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini 1.0 Ultra.

Claude 3 consists of three models: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, with Opus being the most advanced and released in 159 countries. [ more ]

Ars Technica

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have "near-human" abilities

Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of AI language models including subscription-based Opus model.

Claude 3 demonstrates advanced performance, nearing 'near-human' capability in some cognitive tasks. [ more ]

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Tech industry

Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'s Hottest Start-Ups

Anthropic attracted $7.3 billion in funding from various investors.

The funding deals involved unique structures including leveraging technology from investing companies and creating special purpose vehicles. [ more ]

ReadWrite

Anthropic introduces Prompt Shield ahead of US elections

Anthropic has developed a new technology called Prompt Shield to redirect users to accurate political information instead of answering their political queries.

Anthropic acknowledges that Claude lacks up-to-date information on politics and aims to address this shortcoming with Prompt Shield. [ more ]

Axios

Big Tech sells AI during the Super Bowl

Microsoft showcased how its AI assistant, Copilot, can empower humans to achieve more.

Google highlighted how its new AI 'Guided Frame' feature can help blind or low vision users to easily take photos. [ more ]

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3 months ago

GenAI tools 'could not exist' if firms are made to pay copyright | Computer Weekly

Using copyrighted content in AI training data is claimed to be fair use

Music publishers are demanding damages from Anthropic for copyright infringement [ more ]

Theregister

Amazon Q touted as the AI chat assistant for all things AWS

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky previewed Amazon Q as a chat-based generative AI assistant.

AWS is racing ahead with generative AI, competing with Microsoft and its close relationship with OpenAI.

Anthropic's Claude model will power certain AWS offerings, including AppFabric. [ more ]

Theregister

Amazon Q touted as the AI chat assistant for all things AWS

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky previewed Amazon Q as a chat-based generative AI assistant.

AWS is racing ahead with generative AI, competing with Microsoft and its close relationship with OpenAI.

Anthropic's Claude model will power certain AWS offerings, including AppFabric. [ more ]

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DevOps

Amazon Q touted as the AI chat assistant for all things AWS

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky previewed Amazon Q as a chat-based generative AI assistant.

AWS is racing ahead with generative AI, competing with Microsoft and its close relationship with OpenAI.

Anthropic's Claude model will power certain AWS offerings, including AppFabric. [ more ]

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