Anthropic

Anthropic has announced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard that the company says will enable AI assistants to connect seamlessly with a wide range of data sources. According to Anthropic, the protocol is designed to bridge the gap between AI systems and content repositories, business tools, and developer environments—areas where custom integrations have traditionally posed significant challenges. Continue Reading →

For those unfamiliar, GitHub is a super popular, web-based platform (owned by Microsoft) that allows developers to store, share, and collaborate on code. Their AI Copilot (powered by OpenAI) has been around for months. Now, GitHub’s Copilot is officially multi-model, supporting Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT-4 variants. Continue Reading →

Anthropic (the company behind ChatGPT competitor Claude) has taken an interesting step toward AI transparency by publishing Claude's system prompts – the ones that shape the model's behavior. These prompts dictate not only the model's restrictions (like avoiding facial recognition) but also their intended personality traits, such as intellectual curiosity and impartiality. According to Anthropic, its goal is to position itself as an ethical leader in AI. That would certainly set it apart from the pack. Continue Reading →

Anthropic has unveiled "Team," an enterprise version of its AI chatbot Claude. It's designed to cater to businesses across various sectors such as technology, financial services, and health care. The offering (market priced at $30/per month) includes all of Anthropic's advanced Claude models, admin tools, and the ability to process extensive documents. Continue Reading →

Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert got everyone's pixels in a pickle when he tweeted that Claude 3 Opus (Anthropic's newest hopeful ChatGPT killer) demonstrated a type of "metacognition" (or self-awareness) during a "needle-in-the-haystack" evaluation. Continue Reading →

Anthropic claims that Claude 3, the company's most recent AI release, has achieved "near-human" capabilities in various cognitive tasks. It's a bold claim. Let's put it in perspective. Continue Reading →

Universal Music's recent lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic underscores a pressing issue at the intersection of AI and copyright law. The suit alleges that Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude reproduces copyrighted song lyrics almost verbatim, infringing on the rights of music publishers like Concord and Universal. Continue Reading →

Seven AI tech giants – OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection – have committed to watermarking AI-generated content. The goal is to label the provenance of AI-generated text, video, audio, and images, thereby reducing the risk of misleading users about the content's origins. As Google's blog aptly puts it, "None of us can get AI right on our own." Continue Reading →

Anthropic's LLM, Claude, just got a substantial upgrade: its context window has been expanded from 9K tokens to an impressive 100K tokens, equating to around 75,000 words. This expansion is significant, allowing businesses to submit hundreds of pages for Claude's analysis, which enables more extended and in-depth dialogues. Continue Reading →