Source: AFP
Anthropic, a major player in genetic artificial intelligence, has announced new models to power its chatbot Claude, the company said Monday, as ChatGPT faces more rivals.
The company said three new AI models — called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku — were its highest-performing tools yet and industry-leading in their ability to match human intelligence.
Founded in 2021, Anthropic was created by former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and has been funded by Google and partnered with Amazon to develop new technology.
The company has made it a trademark of releasing AI models that seek to impose tighter guardrails than those behind ChatGPT and other chatbot competitors.
However, that approach faced backlash after Google released its Gemini model last month, which was criticized for blunders such as creating images of ethnically diverse World War II Nazi troops.
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Some industry watchers also complain that chatbots have become less impressive as companies introduce tighter controls in response to controversies over the technology going off the rails or giving incorrect answers.
Acknowledging that the safeguards could go too far, Anthropic said the new models will avoid making “unnecessary denials” that were a problem for its previous versions.
“The Opus, Sonnet and Haiku are far less likely to refuse to respond to prompts that border the system’s guardrails than previous model generations,” it said.
Anthropic said its Opus model was the most powerful of the three and could outperform its peers on key benchmarks, including math.
Claude is considered one of the leading AI chatbot makers and is closely associated with Amazon and its AWS cloud division, which provides the company’s computing-intensive needs.
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It has also received investments from Google and other Silicon Valley heavyweights.
Unlike its competitors, Anthropic’s Claude chatbot does not generate images and only allows users to use images as requests for analysis.
Competing tools from OpenAI and Google generate images on demand, but Anthropic executives believe customers aren’t clamoring for the feature.
Like other AI giants, Anthropic is facing a lawsuit from content creators who accuse the company of stealing copyrighted material to build its models.
Universal and other music publishers sued Anthropic in a US court last year for using copyrighted lyrics to train its systems and generate answers to user queries.
Source: AFP