Anthropic

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  Anthropic Researchers Make Major Breakthrough In Understanding How an AI Model Thinks

  Anthropic researchers shared two new papers on Thursday, sharing the methodology and findings on how an artificial intelligence (AI) model thinks. The San Francisco-based AI firm developed techniques to monitor the decision-making process of a large language model (LLM) to understand what motivates a particular response and structure over another.

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  OpenAI to Add Support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to Connect ChatGPT With External Data Hubs

  OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI firm, is adding support for Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products. Company CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the Agents software development kit (SDK) is now offering MCP support, and several other products in the pipeline will soon adopt it as well.

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  Anthropic Wins Early Round in Music Publishers' AI Copyright Case

  Music publishers UMG, Concord and ABKCO sued Anthropic in 2023, alleging that it infringed their copyrights in lyrics from at least 500 songs. The publishers claimed Anthropic used the lyrics without permission to train Claude to respond to human prompts. Anthropic, for now, has convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminar...

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  Anthropic Upgrades Claude AI Chatbot With Web Search Capability

  Anthropic announced the rollout of the web search functionality for Claude on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in March 2023, but so far, it could not access the Internet to find real-time information, and only had to rely on its internal knowledge database.

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  US Drops Bid to Make Google Sell Anthropic Investments in Antitrust Case

  The US DoJ dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google to sell its investments in AI firms. Google holds a minority stake worth billions of dollars in Anthropic. Losing the investment would hand a competitive advantage to OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, Anthropic wrote to the court in February.

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  Microsoft Said to Be Developing AI Reasoning Models to Compete With OpenAI

  Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house AI reasoning models, known as MAI, to rival OpenAI, with plans to offer them to developers. These models, led by Mustafa Suleyman, perform nearly as well as OpenAI's and Anthropic's on key benchmarks. The company has also tested models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI alternatives for Copi...

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  Anthropic Releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI Model With Reasoning Capabilities, Introduces Claude Code

  Anthropic released an upgraded version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet artificial intelligence (AI) model on Monday. Dubbed Claude 3.7 Sonnet, it is being made available to all Claude users. The AI firm described 3.7 Sonnet as its most intelligent model capable of advanced reasoning. The main focus of the new large language model (LLM) is coding.

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  Anthropic’s Economic Index Reveals Software Engineering Is Most Impacted by AI

  Anthropic introduced the Anthropic Economic Index on Monday to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the labour market and the economy. The initial report of the research reveals that software engineering fields are the most impacted by this new technology. The research found the arts, design, sports, entertainment, and media fie...

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  Anthropic Developing Constitutional Classifiers to Safeguard AI Models From Jailbreak Attempts

  Anthropic announced the development of a new system on Monday that can protect artificial intelligence (AI) models from jailbreaking attempts. Dubbed Constitutional Classifiers, it is a safeguarding technique that can detect when a jailbreaking attempt is made at the input level and prevent the AI from generating a harmful response as a result of i...

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  Anthropic Introduces a Citations Feature to Make Claude’s Responses More Reliable

  Anthropic introduced a new application programming interface (API) feature on Thursday to let developers ground the responses generated by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Dubbed Citations, the feature allows developers to restrict the output generation of the Claude family of AI models to source documents. This is aimed at improving the reliab...

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  Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says

  The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.

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  Amazon-Backed Anthropic To Raise $2 Billion At $60 Billion Evaluation

  The new funding, $6 billion in total, will mark a jump in valuation (up from $18 Billion last year) for Anthropic, a major competitor of OpenAI in the foundation model space.

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  AI Agents in 2025: What Are They and How Can They Revolutionise Industries Across the Globe

  This year should mark the entry of AI agents in consumer electronics, mobile and desktop applications, as well as websites and platforms. Google’s Project Mariner, for example, can be integrated with Google Chrome and assist users in making purchases and finding files from the web by the end of this year.

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  Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More

  If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and pl...

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  AI 2024 Wrapped: What AI Models Achieved This Year

  From Apple Intelligence to the Russia-Ukraine war, AI was virtually everywhere this year.