SCRAnthropic has released desktop apps for Mac and Windows for its AI chatbot Claude, bringing Claude’s capabilities to users’ preferred work environments, TechCrunch reports. The apps are available in public beta for both free and premium users. Anthropic also introduced a dictation tool allowing users to upload voice messages up to 10 minutes long for …
Google has introduced “Grounding with Google Search” for its Gemini AI platform, allowing developers to enhance their AI applications with current information from Google Search. As reported by VentureBeat’s Michael Nuñez, the service launched just hours before OpenAI’s consumer-focused ChatGPT Search. Google’s offering targets developers and costs $35 per 1,000 queries, while OpenAI’s service is …
AI search startup Perplexity is set to raise $500 million at a $9 billion valuation, tripling its worth from a few months ago, according to people familiar with the matter. Reported by Berber Jin for the Wall Street Journal, this would be Perplexity’s fourth funding round this year, and the company has faced criticism from …
OpenAI has acquired the domain name Chat.com for an undisclosed amount, TechCrunch reports. The domain, which was registered in 1996 and is one of the oldest on the web, now redirects to OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT. According to a post on X-Twitter by HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, who sold the domain last year …
Nvidia has become the world’s most valuable company, surpassing Apple with a market cap of $3.43 trillion as of November 5, 2024. According to Ryan Vlastelica reporting for Bloomberg, Nvidia’s dominance reflects the immense impact of artificial intelligence on Wall Street. The chipmaker is responsible for a quarter of the S&P 500’s 21% gain this …
Google subsidiary DeepMind has introduced SynthID-Text, a system for watermarking text generated by large language models (LLMs). By subtly altering word probabilities during text generation, SynthID-Text embeds a detectable statistical signature without degrading the quality, accuracy, or speed of the output, as described by Pushmeet Kohli and colleagues in the journal Nature. While not foolproof, …
Anthropic has released its newest and smallest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, which outperforms the previous flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, on various benchmarks at a lower cost, according to the company. However, Anthropic has increased the pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku to reflect its enhanced capabilities, with input tokens now costing $1 per million …
Researchers from UC San Diego and Tsinghua University have developed a method that improves artificial intelligence’s ability to understand when to use external tools versus relying on built-in knowledge, similar to how human experts approach problem-solving. Using a relatively small language model with 8 billion parameters, the team achieved a 28% improvement in answer accuracy …
OpenAI, the $157 billion artificial intelligence company founded in 2015 as a nonprofit, is in preliminary discussions with the California and Delaware attorneys general to convert to a for-profit public benefit corporation. According to two people familiar with the matter, the process will likely involve regulators examining how OpenAI values its intellectual property assets, such …
Meta is making its Llama AI models available to U.S. government agencies and contractors working on defense and national security applications. According to a blog post by Meta cited by TechCrunch, the company is partnering with firms like Accenture, Amazon Web Services, and Lockheed Martin to bring Llama to these entities. The move comes after …