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Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
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#12I’ve never heard of anthropic. Who are they and what do they offer that’s worth that investment?
They have an excellent LLM called Claude which is quite competitive with OpenAI offerings and has long context windows.
Other than OpenAI’s models they have been able to deliver the best results in projects I worked on and sometimes they outperformed OpenAI models too.
I’m happy to see this as this gives them funding to further train expensive models and compete - their product is really nice at the moment but could really benefit from bigger size and even bigger contexts.
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#13I’ve never heard of anthropic. Who are they and what do they offer that’s worth that investment?
They have Claude 2 which is up there with GPT-4 and PaLM 2 as one of the top three publicly accessible large language models. And presumably those billions will train Claude 3.
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#14Great to see investment in the most alignment-conscious of the AI orgs.
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#15If this means alexa isn't a pet rock that can only reliably set timers, good for them.
I wish Siri did that consistently. Right now my Apple Watch Siri is unusable even to set timers. I don't know if the latest updates on my old watch struggles to run or what else the issue could be.
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#16Strange given google's investment history, they owned roughly 15ish% before this.
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#17I’ve never heard of anthropic. Who are they and what do they offer that’s worth that investment?
They are basically the only direct competitor to OA.
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#18I've been using the claude model over the past months and I have to say I usually prefer it over ChatGPT.
Some things that impressed me particular are:
* It can often give you working urls of images related to your query. (e.g. give me some images to use with this blog paragraph).
* It can list relevant publications corresponding to paragraphs, chatgpt often halucinates new papers but claude consistenly gives highly cited and relevant suggestions.
* It can work with pdf inputs.
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#19If this means alexa isn't a pet rock that can only reliably set timers, good for them.
Alexa and google home have been excellent for discovering new music. You ask them for a song you know and they play either a very weird cover version or something entirely different.
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#20$4B in AWS credits. So...$4M?
By the sounds, it's actually a $4B investment (taking minority stake) whilst also potentially providing free access to some AWS services? The degree or agreement of access to AWS services isn't totally clear though...