Tag: Anthropic

Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic — reportedly ‘largest’ in company history

Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. We previously reported on the news of e-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon’s plan to invest $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Today, […]

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Amazon invests another $2.75B in Anthropic — reportedly ‘largest’ in company history

Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. We previously reported on the news of e-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon’s plan to invest $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic. Today, […]

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Exclusive: AWS, Accenture and Anthropic partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Accenture, and AI startup Anthropic are joining forces to help organizations in highly-regulated sectors like healthcare, government, and banking adopt customized artificial intelligence models in a rapid but responsible way, VentureBeat […]

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Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models. Haiku stands out as the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class, […]

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Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Artificial intelligence startup Cohere announced the release of a major new language model called Command-R today, as the Toronto-based company finds itself in the midst of a heated fundraising round that could bring in as […]

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Beyond human intelligence: Claude 3.0 and the quest for AGI

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Last week, Anthropic unveiled the 3.0 version of their Claude family of chatbots. This model follows Claude 2.0 (released only eight months ago), showing how fast this industry is evolving. With this latest release, Anthropic […]

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Anthropic’s Claude 3 knew when researchers were testing it

We’ve already reported on how the San Francisco startup Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI engineers and led by a brother-sister duo, today made AI history by announcing the most powerful consumer-facing family of large language models (LLMs) in the world to date, Claude 3. Also on how Amazon quickly added one of the models, Claude […]

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Amazon adds GPT-4-beating Claude 3 to Bedrock

Big news in the world of generative AI this morning: not only did San Francisco startup Anthropic release a new large language model (LLM), Claude 3, that appears to be the most powerful in the world to date — besting previous leaders OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Advanced on common benchmark tests — but its […]

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Anthropic unveils Claude 3, surpassing GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra in benchmark tests

Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence startup, unveiled its Claude 3 series of AI models today, designed to meet the diverse needs of enterprise customers with a balance of intelligence, speed, and cost efficiency. The lineup includes three models: Opus, Sonnet, and the upcoming Haiku. The star of the lineup is Opus, which Anthropic claims is […]

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Mistral AI makes waves with deals across tech giants including Microsoft, IBM

Paris-based startup Mistral AI has cemented itself as a rising star in the artificial intelligence world, landing major partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, and others just one year after its founding.  The fledgling company is moving fast to commercialize its state-of-the-art natural language processing models and conversational AI capabilities. Mistral unveiled its flagship commercial model, Mistral […]

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Anthropic confirms it suffered a data leak

It’s been an eventful week for AI startup Anthropic, creator of the Claude family of large language models (LLMs) and associated chatbots. The company says that on Monday, January 22nd, it became aware that a contractor inadvertently sent a file containing non-sensitive customer information to a third party. The file detailed a “subset” of customer […]

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FTC probes Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and their massive generative AI deals

In one of the first significant competitive practice actions around generative AI, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched inquiries into five top creators of the technology.  The agency today issued 6(b) orders to Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Alphabet, requiring the companies to provide information about recent multi-billion-dollar investments and partnerships. The inquiry will […]

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Anthropic hits back at music publishers in AI copyright lawsuit, accusing them of ‘volitional conduct’ 

Anthropic, a major generative AI startup, laid out its case why accusations of copyright infringement from a group of music publishers and content owners are invalid in a new court filing on Wednesday.  In fall 2023, music publishers including Concord, Universal, and ABKCO filed a lawsuit against Anthropic accusing it of copyright infringement over its […]

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More ethical AI? Fairly Trained launches to certify gen AI tools trained on licensed data

It is in some ways the “original sin” of generative AI: many of the leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta have been trained on data scraped from the web without prior knowledge or express permission of those who posted it. AI companies who took this approach argue it is fair game and […]

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Survey says there’s a 50% chance AI beats humans at all tasks in 20 years

AI is moving at an astronomical pace: In a little more than a year, it has shifted the entire conversation not just in enterprise, but in everyday life.  Things are accelerating so fast, in fact, that even those working in the field are taken aback. Many report being surprised — and increasingly concerned — by […]

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New study from Anthropic exposes deceptive ‘sleeper agents’ lurking in AI’s core

New research is raising concern among AI experts about the potential for AI systems to engage in and maintain deceptive behaviors, even when subjected to safety training protocols designed to detect and mitigate such issues. Scientists at Anthropic, a leading AI safety startup, have demonstrated that they can create potentially dangerous “sleeper agent” AI models […]

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What’s in store for AI in 2024: Collaboration, vision — and a manipulation crisis

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Just about a year ago, I wrote about 2023 being the year of LLMs. Models like Llama 2, Claude and Cohere emerged as substantial challengers to OpenAI, fueling innovation across the board — but […]

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OpenAI announces ‘Preparedness Framework’ to track and mitigate AI risks

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab behind ChatGPT, announced today its “Preparedness Framework,” a set of processes and tools to monitor and manage the potential dangers of increasingly powerful AI models. […]

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Why Anthropic and OpenAI are obsessed with securing LLM model weights

As chief information security officer at Anthropic, and one of only three senior leaders reporting to CEO Dario Amodei, Jason Clinton has a lot on his plate.  Clinton oversees a small team tackling everything from data security to physical security at the Google and Amazon-backed startup, which is known for its large language models Claude […]

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Anthropic leads charge against AI bias and discrimination with new research

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. As artificial intelligence infiltrates nearly every aspect of modern life, researchers at startups like Anthropic are working to prevent harms like bias and discrimination before new AI systems are deployed. […]

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ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, just announced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now available as a dedicated […]

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2 clear and consistent paths toward effective, accelerated AI regulation

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. AI has been transformative, especially with the public drop of ChatGPT. But for all the potential AI holds, its development at its current pace, if left unchecked, comes with more […]

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A year ago, it was just ChatGPT — now LLMs are everywhere

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT a year ago today, the idea of an AI-driven personal assistant was new to much of the world. We all had seen chatbots capable of providing […]

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Anthropic slashes AI pricing amid rising competition

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. For enterprise companies exploring opportunities in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), a new development promises greater access and affordability. Anthropic, a leading AI model lab, today dropped the per-token pricing of […]

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OpenAI in turmoil: Altman’s leadership, trust issues and new opportunities for Google and Anthropic — 4 key takeaways 

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. In a special video podcast, VB editorial director Michael Nunez and I discuss the takeaways from the OpenAI debacle of the last 5 days. What does it all mean for […]

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Anthropic seizes the moment, unveiling Claude 2.1 as OpenAI implodes

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. As OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence startup, faces an uncertain future following the surprise ouster of its CEO Sam Altman, competitor Anthropic is seizing the moment to release its own […]

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Report: Enterprise investment in generative AI shockingly low, while traditional AI is thriving

Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It is a breakthrough technology with transformational promises across numerous domains — even human life itself.   And while 2023 was undoubtedly the year that gen AI had its breakout, that has largely been hype, according to a Menlo Ventures report shared exclusively with VentureBeat.  Gen AI still […]

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The promise of collective superintelligence

The word “superintelligence” is thrown around a lot these days, referring to AI systems that may soon exceed human cognitive abilities across a wide range of tasks from logic and reasoning to creativity and intuition. While this seemed like a distant possibility only a few years ago, many experts now believe it could be less […]

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New method reveals how one LLM can be used to jailbreak another

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More A new algorithm developed by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania can automatically stop safety loopholes in large language models (LLM). Called Prompt Automatic Iterative Refinement (PAIR), the algorithm can identify “jailbreak” prompts that […]

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Top 10 AI Companies Shaping the Tech World

For years, AI has promised to change the world. 2023 may prove to be the year in which it did. Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but artificial intelligence is passing all kinds of milestones, whether in terms of technical capabilities, mainstream awareness, or even—in an otherwise depressed tech industry—funding. Spurred by continued advances in fields like deep learning, […]

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Global leaders scramble to regulate the future of AI

There is no doubt that the pace of AI development has accelerated over the last year. Due to rapid advances in technology, the idea that AI could one day be smarter than people has moved from science fiction to plausible near-term reality. Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award winner, concluded in May that the time when […]

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