AI Briefing: With OpenAI in the spotlight, others release their own new AI models
By Marty Swant
Although last week was largely overshadowed by all the drama around OpenAI, it was also a big week for some of the startup’s key rivals and partners.
Anthropic — another AI startup founded by former OpenAI employees — launched the next version of Claude, a chatbot rivaling ChatGPT. With Claude 2.1, Anthropic added a number of major updates including the power to process more information, adding more API tools and increasing the ability to give accurate and honest answers.
A day later, another new large language model was released by Inflection AI, the AI startup behind a popular chatbot called Pi. The company — co-founded by Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — claims its new Inflection-2 model beats Google’s PaLM in a number of key benchmarks. However, the company says it still needs to undergo various steps before it begins powering Pi in order to make sure it’s a “helpful and safe personal AI.” (Suleyman is also the cofounder of Deepmind, an AI startup Google acquired in 2014.)
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