Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a bit also creative when he evoked his most recent announcement. Titled “There is hope in difficult questions,” the company’s latest ad has unsettled viewers with its strange images and fatalistic tone. The ad begins with a video of a house
Anthropic has begun localizing Claude pricing in India, its largest market outside the US, as global AI companies increasingly tailor their offerings to win users in the world’s most populous nation. Local pricing has started appearing for some Indian users on Claude’s website and mobile apps. However, Anthropic is yet to enable payments through the
More than 200 leading economists, executives and researchers (including more than a dozen Nobel laureates) signed a letter warning of the potential threat of AI to jobs. The 88-word letter, titled “We must act now,” says AI could become “radically more powerful” in the next decade, and argues that policymakers around the world must do
The AI talent wars don’t let up, and neither does Anthropic’s wave of big-name hiring. The artificial intelligence startup has hired Tom Blomfield, co-founder of British fintech company Monzo and one of the biggest names in UK tech. Blomfield said Monday that he will take a leave of absence from Y Combinator, where he has
Satya Nadella quietly criticized AI labs like Anthropic for the way they train their models. In an X post on Sunday, Microsoft’s CEO said that model makers complaining about distillation are hypocritical. Distillation is the process of training a less powerful model based on the results of a stronger one. “While the great innovation that
Here’s a delicious AI irony. For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the Internet, it can be used for the development and output of AI models. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to avoid it, without success. Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discovering what the rest
