Main topic: Anthropic raises $100 million in funding for its AI assistant Claude.
Key points:
1. Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival, secured a $100 million investment from SK Telecom.
2. The funding will support the development of a customized language model for telcos.
3. Anthropic has raised over $1.4 billion in the past 16 months, with previous investments from Google and other prominent investors.
The main topic is the popularity of Character AI, a chatbot that allows users to chat with celebrities, historical figures, and fictional characters.
The key points are:
1. Character AI has monthly visitors spending an average eight times more time on the platform compared to ChatGPT.
2. Character AI's conversations appear more natural than ChatGPT.
3. Character AI has emerged as the sole competitor to ChatGPT and has surpassed numerous AI chatbots in popularity.
### Summary
Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, has advantages over OpenAI's ChatGPT, including the ability to upload and summarize files, handle longer input and output, and provide more accurate and contextual information. However, Claude's summarization feature through links is unreliable and may lead to inaccuracies.
### Facts
- Claude AI has the ability to upload and summarize files, giving it an edge over ChatGPT.
- Contextual understanding is crucial for AI chatbots, and Claude's 100K context exceeds ChatGPT's 8K context, allowing for more accurate conversations.
- Claude can parse and summarize long documents, including scientific studies, books, and reports.
- Claude is trained on data up to December 2022, while ChatGPT is trained on data up to September 2021.
- Claude knows information that ChatGPT doesn't, such as recent product launches and specifications.
- Users can drop links into the chat to get Claude to summarize the contents, but there may be issues with hallucinations and accessing paywalled content.
- Anthropic could improve Claude's summarization feature while respecting copyright laws and paywalled content restrictions.
Claude, a new AI chatbot developed by Anthropic, offers advantages over OpenAI's ChatGPT, such as the ability to upload and summarize files and handle longer input, making it better suited for parsing large texts and documents.
AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT was used to create a week-long meal plan and shopping list for a runner on a budget, providing nutritious and budget-friendly meals with specified macros; however, the lack of personalization and human touch in the plan left room for improvement.
Anthropic's chatbot Claude 2, accessible through its website or as a Slack app, offers advanced AI features such as processing large amounts of text, answering questions about current events, and analyzing web pages and files.
AI chatbot ChatGPT is projected to generate over 10 figures of revenue in the next year, with monthly revenues exceeding $80 million, driven by its AI technology and subscription options.
Anthropic has launched its premium subscription plan, Claude Pro, for its AI-powered chatbot, Claude 2, offering customers more usage, the ability to send more messages, priority access, and early access to new features for $20 per month in the U.S. or £18 in the U.K., the same price as OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus. Anthropic aims to create a next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching and has raised $1.45 billion in funding, but estimates it will need $5 billion over the next two years to achieve its goals.
The hype around AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT is helping politicians become more comfortable with AI weapons, according to Palmer Luckey, the founder of defense tech startup Anduril Industries.
AI-powered chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT can effectively and cost-efficiently operate a software development company with minimal human intervention, completing the full software development process in under seven minutes at a cost of less than one dollar on average.
Character.ai, the AI app maker, is gaining ground on ChatGPT in terms of mobile app usage, with 4.2 million monthly active users in the U.S. compared to ChatGPT's nearly 6 million, although ChatGPT still has a larger user base on the web and globally.
An anonymous Ethereum developer has created code that combines OpenAI's ChatGPT API with his own script to enable an AI chatbot to generate new ERC-20 tokens automatically. The developer has already launched a public token called AstroPepeX (APX), which has generated significant trading volume, and plans to publish a user interface for non-technical users to launch their own tokens on Ethereum using ChatGPT.
Meta is planning to introduce AI chatbots with various personas, including sassy ones like "Bob the robot," to engage younger users on Facebook and Instagram. These chatbots may also be used by celebrities and creators, and other personas like "Alvin the Alien" and "Gavin" are being developed as well.
Character.AI, a startup specializing in chatbots capable of impersonating anyone or anything, is reportedly in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, potentially valuing the company at over $5 billion.
