Anthropic, co-founded by Daniela Amodei and her brother Dario in 2021, aims to develop safer chatbots than its competitors. The startup, backed by Google and Amazon, has raised approximately $7.3 billion over the past year. Amazon invested up to $4 billion and took a minority stake in the company in September, followed by a $2 billion investment from Google in October.
Key takeaways:
- AI startup Anthropic has announced its new family of AI models, Claude 3, which includes Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. Opus is claimed to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in a range of tasks.
- The new models can be used in live customer chats, for auto-completions, and data extraction, and can process visual formats, including photos, charts, and graphs.
- Unlike its existing models, Anthropic said the Claude 3 family is “significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts” that cut too close to the system’s guardrails for harm.
- Anthropic, founded in 2021, has received significant backing from Google and Amazon, with five funding rounds totaling around $7.3 billion over the past year.