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Claude Research Feature Launched: AI Manages Complex Tasks and Becomes Your Work Tool
On April 16, Anthropic published a blog post yesterday (April 15) announcing the launch of "Research" for its Claude and support for Google Workspace integration. Claude's Research feature is similar to ChatGPT's Deep Research, and is officially said to revolutionize the way information is accessed and reasoned about. The feature actively conducts multiple rounds of searches, progressively dives deeper into a problem, automatically explores different perspectives, and systematically solves open-ended problems. ...- 498
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Facing OpenAI head-on, Anthropic prepares to launch voice interaction 'as soon as this month'
April 16, 2012 - Bloomberg reported today that Anthropic is preparing to launch a "voice mode" that will compete head-to-head with the voice option offered by OpenAI in ChatGPT. The voice assistant feature will be integrated into the Claude AI chatbot, and is expected to go live "as soon as this month". Anthropic will reportedly offer three English-language voices to choose from, named Airy, Mellow, and Buttery, according to the company.- 334
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After OpenAI, Google's Gemini model will support Anthropic's MCP protocol
April 10 - After OpenAI announced that it would be adopting rival Anthropic's standards for AI model-connected data systems, Google was quick to follow suit. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis took to the X platform on Wednesday to announce that Google would be adding support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Gemini model and software development kit (SDK), which will be used to connect AI models to the data system standards of competitor Anthropic. ...- 577
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Anthropic Launches Claude Max Subscription Plan for Up to $200 a Month
April 10, 2011 - Anthropic has announced the launch of Max, a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude, which is seen as a strong response to the $200 per month subscription plan for OpenAI ChatGPT Pro. Max is a more limited subscription than Anthropic's own $20 per month Claude Pro subscription, and gives users priority access to the company's latest AI models and features. The Max program is less restrictive than Anthropic's own $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription, and gives users priority access to the company's latest AI models and features. However, the Max program itself comes with two different definitions...- 429
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Anthropic to promote 'AI on Campus' program, will provide customized versions of Claude to students and faculty at colleges and universities
On Wednesday, April 3, Anthropic announced its official entry into the higher education market with the release of its "Claude for Education" program, a response to OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu solution. The program will offer the Claude AI chatbot to college faculty, students and staff with an additional set of specialized features. One of the new features in Claude Projects is Learning Mode, which is designed to help students develop...- 977
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI revealed to offer contextual window 500,000 tokens killer app
March 27, 2011 - Tech media testingcatalog published a blog post yesterday (March 26) reporting that AI company Anthropic is planning to "expand" the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, jumping its context window from 200,000 tokens to half a million tokens. The 500,000 tokens window allows for the direct processing of massive amounts of information, avoiding the contextual clutter that can result from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and is suitable for political document analysis, management of very long code bases, and...- 1.4k
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Anthropic Secures Initial Victory in AI Copyright Lawsuit, Publishers Accused of Overly Broad Requirements
AI company Anthropic has scored a preliminary legal victory in a copyright dispute with several music publishers. A U.S. federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have restricted Anthropic's use of copyrighted lyrics for AI training. According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee ruled that Universal Music Group's (UMG), Concord's, and ABKCO's requests were overly broad, and that the publishers failed to prove that Anthropic's use of the lyrics caused them "irreparable harm". ...- 499
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Anthropic AI Chatbot Claude Adds Connected Search Feature
March 21, 2011 - Anthropic announced yesterday (March 20) that its big-language chatbot, Claude, now supports online search, which users can set to be enabled to automatically pull information from the Internet when needed, with direct quotes from the source provided in the feedback so users can verify the source. Unlike ChatGPT, Claude does not have a dedicated "search" button in the input box. Users need to enable web browsing in their personal settings, and when this is enabled, Claude will automatically pull information from the web when needed...- 777
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Anthropic is working on voice features for Claude chatbot, has discussed partnerships with multiple parties
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is developing voice features for its AI-powered chatbot, Claude. Speaking to the FT, Mike Krieger, the company's chief product officer, said Anthropic plans to roll out a series of experiences that will allow users to communicate with the company's AI model by voice. Krieger said, "We're looking at how Claude on the desktop is going to evolve ...... If it's going to be used to operate computers, then voice interaction might be a more...- 1.6k
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Anthropic CEO Amodei: Future AIs may be self-determining, rejecting 'unpleasant' tasks
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a surprising observation on Monday, according to a March 13 report by Ars Technica, suggesting that future advanced AI models may be given a "button" that allows them to opt out of unpleasant tasks. AI models of the future may be given a "button" that allows them to opt out when they encounter unpleasant tasks. This is another one of those topics that makes me seem crazy," Amodei said in an interview. I think we should at least consider the question: if we're building these systems that can perform tasks as well as humans...- 580
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Anthropic CEO: AI will code 90% in six months, almost all of it in one year
With the rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and productivity-enhancing tools of all kinds, professionals are increasingly worried about their ability to keep their jobs. Discussing the displacement of jobs by AI, Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI and now CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, noted that "some creative jobs may disappear, but if they produce poor quality content, they probably shouldn't exist in the first place. " NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang expressed similar sentiments, recognizing...- 1.4k
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Google invests more than $3 billion in Anthropic, documents show, as the latter's independence is questioned
March 12, 2011 - San Francisco startup Anthropic has long been seen as a "lone wolf" in the fiercely competitive field of artificial intelligence, independent of the tech giants. However, according to court documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the relationship between Google and Anthropic is much closer than it seems. The documents reveal that Google currently holds 14% of Anthropic and plans to inject another $750 million into the company in the current year through a convertible bond deal. At this point, Google's interest in Anthropic...- 879
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Anthropic's Claude Code Tool Vulnerability Causes Some Systems to "Brick"
March 7, 2011 - Anthropic's latest coding tool, Claude Code, is experiencing some technical issues. Users on GitHub have reported a vulnerability in the tool's auto-update feature that has caused some workstations to become unstable or even not function properly. According to 1AI, the root of the problem is that Claude Code's auto-update command contains an error code. When the tool is installed with "root" or "superuser" privileges, these error commands allow the application to modify file directories that are normally restricted...- 657
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Anthropic closes $3.5B Series E as valuation rises to $61.5B
March 4, 2011 - Anthropic, an AI modeling company touted as one of OpenAI's most important competitors, announced today that it has completed a total of $3.5 billion (note: currently about 25.511 billion yuan) in Series E financing, with the company's post-investment valuation rising to $61.5 billion (currently about 448.257 billion yuan). Anthropic's round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participants including Cisco, Salesforce's investment... -
Anthropic Fully Opens Claude AI's GitHub Integration to Empower All Developers
February 27, 2011 - Alex Albert, head of Claude relations at Anthropic, announced the opening of the GitHub integration of Claude for free, Pro, and Teams users in a tweet on the X platform on February 25. The GitHub integration was previously limited to Claude for GitHub integration was previously limited to Claude for Enterprise, which provides enterprise users with enhanced code understanding and assistance capabilities. The integration is primarily for GitHub code...- 1.5k
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Anthropic's New Flagship AI Model Claude 3.7 Sonnet Training Cost Revealed: Just Tens of Millions of Dollars
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic's newest flagship model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost "tens of millions of dollars" to train, according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who took to the social media platform X on Monday. Mollick said he was told by Anthropic's public relations department that Sonnet 3.7 is not a 10^26 FLOP model, and that it only cost "tens of millions of dollars" to train, though future model sizes...- 1.1k
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AI Model Claude 3.7 Sonnet Just Released, Sources Say Anthropic Rises to $3.5 Billion in New Funding Round
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is in the process of finalizing a $3.5 billion (note: currently about 25.383 billion yuan) funding round, valuing the company at $61.5 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Initially, Anthropic planned to raise $2 billion, but investors have now agreed to commit a larger sum. Potential investors in the round include Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Bessem...- 1.2k
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Anthropic Launches Next-Generation Hybrid Reasoning Model Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The Company's "Smartest" AI Model
Today, February 25, artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced the launch of its first "hybrid inference model," Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which solves more complex problems and outperforms previous models in areas such as math and coding. The model solves more complex problems and outperforms previous models in areas such as math and coding. Anthropic says it's the "smartest" AI model it's ever created, describing the "hybrid" model as having both a "reasoning mode" (stop and think) and a traditional mode (think in real time). (stopping to think about complex answers) and traditional mode (generating answers in real time), and says the model is the only one of its kind on the market...- 1.6k
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After Departure from Anthropic, Sources Say OpenAI Co-Founder Schulman to Join Former CTO's New Company
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- OpenAI co-founder John Schulman left artificial intelligence startup Anthropic last week after just five months at the company. According to Fortune, he's joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's mysterious new company. It's unclear exactly what Shulman's role will be in the new company. Fortune was unable to obtain the information, and since Murati left OpenAI in September of last year, she's been interested in the startup... -
Anthropic Releases Citations API to Meet AI Source Verification Challenges
January 24, 2011 - Anthropic has introduced a new API called Citations, which, as the name suggests, provides reference sources for AI-generated content and embeds links to the original documents, associating AI answers with user-supplied documents such as emails or PDFs. ). The feature is live on Anthropic's API and Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform. Note: Developers currently rely on complex cue words embedded in the AI output...- 1.9k
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Anthropic, OpenAI's strongest rival, to raise $2 billion, valuation soars to $60 billion
Anthropic, the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, is in talks for a new round of funding that would value the company at $60 billion, a sharp climb from about $16 billion less than a year ago, people familiar with the matter said, according to The New York Times. The round, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, is expected to inject $2 billion into Anthropic, the sources said. Since its founding in 2021, Anthropic has grown from Menlo Park...- 3.2k
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Anthropic Concedes: Claude AI No Longer Generates Copyrighted Lyrics
January 4, 2011 - Anthropic has reached an agreement with major music publishers to temporarily resolve their dispute by banning its AI assistant Claude from generating copyrighted lyrics, although the core issue of "using copyrighted lyrics to train AI models" remains unresolved. Anthropic has reached an agreement with music giants such as Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO that prohibits Claude from copying or creating lyrics based on copyrighted material. Note: The agreement stems from the 2023 out... -
Anthropic Co-Founder: AI Hasn't Evolved to Its Limits Yet, Will Continue Its High-Speed Rampage in 2025
Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The field of AI continues to roar down the highway in 2025, thanks to the scaling of traditional models and the proliferation of new models and approaches, according to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark. In his Import AI blog, Clark refuted the notion that AI development has reached its limits, saying that o3 models are not simply increasing the size of the model, but rather utilizing reinforcement learning and additional computational power to open up entirely new possibilities for scaling. Clark predicts that major companies through...- 1.6k
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Anthropic's new study: Typos can 'jailbreak' GPT-4, Claude, and other AI models
December 25, 2011 - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic recently released a study revealing that security protections for large language models (LLMs) are still vulnerable, and that the process of "jailbreaking" around these protections can be automated, according to 404 Media. The study shows that simply by changing the format of a prompt, such as random case mixing, an LLM can be induced to produce content that should not be output. To validate this finding, Anthropic worked with researchers at Oxford University, Stanford University, and MATS...- 3.2k