Anthropic

Baidu and Zhipu AI’s large language models top Chinese generative AI rankings, but OpenAI, Anthropic remain ahead in overall performance

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Baidu’s Ernie Bot 4.0 and start-up Zhipu AI’s GLM-4 rank top among Chinese large language models (LLMs), but their foreign rivals still lead in overall capabilities, according to a new test by Tsinghua University in Beijing. The SuperBench assessment report examined 14 representative LLMs – the technology underpinning generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots – and … Read more

Amazon adds AI expert Andrew Ng, Google Brain founder and Baidu alumnus, to its board

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Amazon.com is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors, a move that comes amid intense AI competition among start-ups and big technology companies. The Seattle company said Thursday that Ng, a managing director at the Palo Alto, California-based AI Fund, will replace a seat vacated by Judy McGrath, a former CEO … Read more

ChatGPT Enterprise quadruples user numbers in first quarter as OpenAI targets corporate use

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OpenAI is seeing surging demand for the corporate version of ChatGPT even as it confronts a growing number of artificial intelligence companies offering similar products for the workplace. In an interview on Bloomberg Technology, OpenAI’s chief operating officer Brad Lightcap said there are now more than 600,000 people signed up to use ChatGPT Enterprise, up … Read more

Amazon invests US$2.75 billion more in OpenAI rival Anthropic to boost generative AI efforts

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Amazon.com says it is investing an additional US$2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence (AI) start-up and expand a partnership between the companies. The infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic, a well-regarded builder of AI tools able to generate text and analysis, to US$4 billion, … Read more

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

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The start-up in October launched smart chatbot Kimi Chat, built on its self-developed Moonshot large language model (LLM), which can process as many as 200,000 Chinese characters in a context window – referring to the swathe of text that an AI model can process during conversation with users. A screenshot of smart chatbot Kimi Chat. … Read more

US opens antitrust probe on investments by Microsoft in OpenAI, Alphabet and Amazon in Anthropic

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The FTC orders will allow the agency to scrutinise the inner workings of deals between Microsoft, Google and Amazon and AI providers to help the antitrust and consumer protection agency understand how these deals have affected competition. 03:08 What if robots took over the world? One ‘imagines’ nightmare scenario What if robots took over the … Read more

Elon Musk-Led xAI Adopts A For-Profit Benefit Corporate Structure With Aim To Do Some Societal Good

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Following in the footsteps of its arch-rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI has adopted a for-profit benefit corporate structure in Nevada, as per a report by The Information. A late November filing with Nevada suggests this unusual corporate structure will enable xAI to focus more on having a positive impact … Read more