AI startup Anthropic, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of its GenAI tech, Claude. […]
Anthropic introduces Claude 3: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus
Anthropic’s Claude 3, backed by Google and Amazon, introduces three powerful models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus.
Brave’s Leo AI assistant is now available to Android users
Brave is launching its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all Android users. The assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, create content and more. The Android […]
AIs serve up ‘garbage’ to questions about voting and elections
A number of major AI services performed poorly in a test of their ability to address questions and concerns about voting and elections. The study found that no […]
Microsoft made a $16 million investment in Mistral AI
Yesterday, Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI startup working on foundational models, announced a new large language model that could rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, a chat assistant and a distribution […]
Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows. The company is launching a new flagship large language […]
FlowGPT is the wild west of GenAI apps
A few months ago, OpenAI launched the GPT Store, a marketplace where people can create and list AI-powered chatbots customized to perform a number of tasks (e.g. coding, […]
Treating a chatbot nicely might boost its performance — here’s why
People are more likely to do something if you ask nicely. That’s a fact most of us are well aware of. But do generative AI models behave the […]
Anthropic takes steps to prevent election misinformation
Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics […]
As layoffs deepen, AI’s role in the cuts is murky – but it definitely has one
Layoffs season is extending into a sustained state, defying more typical formations of cyclical boom and bust periods in tech. Meanwhile, AI continues to be ascendant – or […]