Anthropic, the AI business created by former OpenAI research executives, is investing heavily to keep pace with the competitive battle to make the most intelligent chatbots driven by generative artificial intelligence by launching Claude 2, their most recent AI chatbot.
The move comes after the company's successful funding rounds that garnered $750 million, as CNBC reported. With the support of well-known corporations like Google, Salesforce, and Zoom, Anthropic has primarily targeted providing commercial clients with AI models.
However, Anthropic is now making its chatbot technology available to users for the first time with the release of Claude 2.
Over the last two months, renowned companies like Slack, Notion, and Quora have rigorously tested the company's AI models, building up a significant waitlist of over 350,000 people asking for access to Claude's application programming interface (API) and client offering.
Significant Improvements
Daniela Amodei, a co-founder of Anthropic, expressed enthusiasm about the safety of the latest iteration of Claude, stating that they "strongly believe" that the latest version of Claude is "the most secure version" the company created to date.
Initially, Claude 2 will be exclusively accessible to users located in the United States and the United Kingdom. However, Anthropic has plans to expand its availability to other regions in the near future.
Introducing Claude 2! Our latest model has improved performance in coding, math and reasoning. It can produce longer responses, and is available in a new public-facing beta website at https://t.co/uLbS2JNczH in the US and UK. pic.twitter.com/jSkvbXnqLd
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) July 11, 2023
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, claims that Claude 2 is not a revolutionary improvement over its predecessor but an essential evolutionary step. Claude 2.0 has shown enhanced performance on exams, scoring better on quizzes in middle school arithmetic, Python coding, and even the bar exam.
Additionally, Claude 2.0 has improved its ability to interpret prompts and can now handle about 150,000 words, equivalent to a long book.
The launch of Claude 2 follows Anthropic's receipt of $450 million in fresh investment from Spark Capital, which valued the firm at over $4 billion. Through Claude's API, Anthropic has already collaborated with hundreds of companies while working with well-known clients like Zoom, Notion, and Midjourney to create unique AI models, according to Forbes.
Anthropic Aims to Address Several AI Issues
Anthropic highlighted the significance of resolving legal problems connected to AI model conduct and responsibility, although withholding particular information about benchmarking techniques or data regurgitation. The strategy used by Anthropic comprises methods like training data deduplication and technological tools, such as product-layer identification and controls, per TechCrunch.
The San Francisco, California-based tech company is particularly interested in the idea of "constitutional AI." Using this strategy, Anthropic seeks to provide models like Claude 2 with predetermined values and principles, directing the model to produce constructive and constructive answers.
The business asserts that constitutional AI offers greater comprehension and adjustment of the model's behavior than other methods. However, it admits the need to find the proper balance to avoid models becoming unduly critical or obnoxious.
In further phases of research, Anthropic intends to investigate constitution customization to develop a benign and beneficial AI model.
However, as the behavior of the AI system gets more complicated, the business admits the difficulty of training Claude, underlining the necessity to monitor and eliminate the underlying challenges.
Anthropic prepares to make substantial advancements in conversational AI's capabilities and security as it delivers Claude 2 to a more extensive user base, strengthening its position in the cutthroat field of AI chatbot development.
