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Canva wants you to pay a lot more for its AI features

Canva wants you to pay a lot more for its AI features

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Canva is dramatically increasing prices for some customers. Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans will see a 300% increase for a five-person plan, jumping from $119.99 per year to $500 per year. Users will get a 40% discount for the first 12 months before the switch takes effect. The company is pointing to its suite of AI-powered design features, including Magic Studio, to justify the price increase. Google Photos’ AI-powered search feature is rolling out. Powered by Google’s Gemini AI model, Ask Photos lets you search your photos using natural language queries that leverage the AI’s understanding of your photos’ content and other metadata. Hypothetically, the feature could tell you what you ate the last time you were at a certain restaurant or what your child’s last birthday party theme was based on your photo library. Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has raised over $1 billion in capital. Prior to SSI, Sutskever headed the now-dismantled Superalignment team at OpenAI, which focused on general AI safety research. Sutskever quietly departed OpenAI months after …

New Claude 3 iOS app released by Anthropic

New Claude 3 iOS app released by Anthropic

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Users of Anthropic’s Claude 3 artificial intelligence (AI)  will be pleased to know that the company has today launched its highly anticipated Claude iOS app. Which is available to download for free for all Claude users and offers the same intuitive experience as mobile web, including syncing your chat history and support for taking and uploading photos. Anthropic has taken a significant leap forward with the introduction of its new Claude iOS app, allowing users to harnesses the power of the Claude 3 AI model effortlessly from their iOS devices. By seamlessly integrating with existing web chats, the app ensures a smooth transition between devices,  users can pick up conversations exactly where they left off. Claude 3 iOS App The Claude iOS app offers a wealth of features designed to cater to the diverse needs of modern mobile users. One of its most impressive capabilities is the vision feature, which empowers users to conduct real-time image analysis by simply using photos from their library or capturing new ones on the spot. This functionality proves invaluable …

Anthropic Announces Claude AI Chatbot App for iPhone and iPad

Anthropic Announces Claude AI Chatbot App for iPhone and iPad

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AI safety and research company Anthropic has announced the launch of its Claude iOS app, offering users easier access to the conversational agent from their iPhone. Similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the Claude chatbot operates by processing large amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like responses. Its architecture is based on machine learning techniques including large language models (LLMs). Whereas ChatGPT is foremost designed for versatility and scalability, Anthropic says its focus is on creating a “steerable” AI so that users can direct the model’s style and content more effectively, thereby mitigating potential harmful outputs and biases from the outset. The AI company says its Claude iOS app features: Seamless syncing with web chats: Pick up where you left off across devices. Vision capabilities: Use photos from your library, take new photos, or upload files so you can have real-time image analysis, contextual understanding, and mobile-centric use cases on the go. Open access: Users across all plans, including Pro and Team, can download the app free of charge. According to Anthropic, early testers report …

Anthropic launches new iPhone app and premium plan for businesses

Anthropic launches new iPhone app and premium plan for businesses

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Anthropic, one of the world’s best-funded generative AI startups with $7.6 billion in the bank, is launching a new paid plan aimed at enterprises, including those in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance and legal, as well as a new iOS app. Team, the enterprise plan, gives customers higher-priority access to Anthropic’s Claude 3 family of generative AI models plus additional admin and user management controls. “Anthropic introduced the Team plan now in response to growing demand from enterprise customers who want to deploy Claude’s advanced AI capabilities across their organizations,” Scott White, product lead at Anthropic, told TechCrunch. “The Team plan is designed for businesses of all sizes and industries that want to give their employees access to Claude’s language understanding and generation capabilities in a controlled and trusted environment.” The Team plan — which joins Anthropic’s individual premium plan, Pro — delivers “greater usage per user” compared to Pro, enabling users to “significantly increase” the number of chats that they can have with Claude. (We’ve asked Anthropic for figures.) Team customers get a …

Anthropic CEO Says That by Next Year, AI Models Could Be Able to “Replicate and Survive in the Wild”

Anthropic CEO Says That by Next Year, AI Models Could Be Able to “Replicate and Survive in the Wild”

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“I could be wrong. But I think it could be a near-term thing.” Eco System As AI seems to grow more powerful every day, one of the main people invested in making it smarter is saying that soon, it might even become self-sustaining and self-replicating. In a podcast interview with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discussed “responsible scaling” of the technology — and how without governance, it may start to, well, breed. As Amodei explained to Klein, Anthropic uses virology lab biosafety levels as an analogy for AI. Currently, he says, the world is at ASL 2 — and ASL 4, which would include “autonomy” and “persuasion,” may be just around the corner “ASL 4 is going to be more about, on the misuse side, enabling state-level actors to greatly increase their capability, which is much harder than enabling random people,” Amodei said. “So where we would worry that North Korea or China or Russia could greatly enhance their offensive capabilities in various military areas with AI in a way that …

Amazon Invests .75B in Anthropic AI

Amazon Invests $2.75B in Anthropic AI

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Amazon has this month announced a massive $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic, the AI company responsible for creating the newly launched Clause 3 AI models, marking a significant milestone in the realm of artificial intelligence. This strategic partnership is set to further push the generative AI revolution forward, using Anthropic’s cutting-edge Claude foundation models to transform customer experiences across a wide array of industries. By integrating these sophisticated models into Amazon’s Bedrock service, the collaboration aims to make advanced AI capabilities more accessible and adaptable to a diverse customer base. Anthropic’s foundation models named Claude, which are at the forefront of generative AI, excel in reasoning and synthesizing vast amounts of data. These capabilities hold immense potential for revolutionizing customer interactions in sectors such as finance, IT manufacturing, transportation, life sciences, and telecommunications. By harnessing the power of these models, businesses can deliver more personalized, efficient, and intelligent services to their customers. Amazon Anthropic Investment For instance, in the financial sector, generative AI can be employed to provide tailored investment advice, automate complex financial analysis, …

Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions

Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions

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How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model (LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful questions first. They call the approach “many-shot jailbreaking” and have both written a paper about it and also informed their peers in the AI community about it so it can be mitigated. The vulnerability is a new one, resulting from the increased “context window” of the latest generation of LLMs. This is the amount of data they can hold in what you might call short-term memory, once only a few sentences but now thousands of words and even entire books. What Anthropic’s researchers found was that these models with large context windows tend to perform better on many tasks if there are lots of examples of that task within the prompt. So if there are lots of trivia questions in …

Watch: Amazon bets B on Anthropic’s success

Watch: Amazon bets $4B on Anthropic’s success

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The current AI wave is a never-ending barrage of news items. To understand what I mean, ask yourself how long you spent considering the fact that Amazon put another $2.75 billion into Anthropic AI last week. Right? We’ve become inured to the capital influx that is now common in AI, even as the headline numbers get even bigger. Sure, Amazon is slinging cash at Anthropic, but single-digit billions are chump change compared to what some companies have planned. Hell, even smaller tech companies — compared to the true giants — are spending to stay on the cutting edge. So as we digest Amazon’s latest, let’s do a quick rewind through some of the largest AI rounds in the last few quarters, and ask ourselves just why we’re some big tech corps get busy with their checkbooks. Source link

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned B investment

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment

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Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps they’ve realized that there are no other horses available to back. The September deal put $1.25 billion into the company in exchange for a minority stake, and certain tit-for-tat agreements like Anthropic continuing to use AWS for its extensive computation needs. Amazon reportedly had until the end of the first quarter to decide whether to increase its investment to a maximum of $4 billion, and here we are just before the deadline, and the company has decided to throw in the maximum amount. Anthropic’s AI models are one of very few that compete at the highest levels of capability (however you define it) yet are available at scale for enterprises to deploy internally or in user-facing applications. OpenAI’s GPT series and Google’s Gemini are the others up there, but upstarts like Mistral may soon threaten that fragile triumvirate. …

Amazon Adds .75 Billion to its Stake in Anthropic

Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to its Stake in Anthropic

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Amazon said on Wednesday that it had added $2.75 billion to its investment in Anthropic, a start-up that competes with companies like OpenAI and Google in the race to build cutting-edge A.I. systems. Six months ago, Amazon invested $1.25 billion in Anthropic, making the San Francisco start-up Amazon’s most important A.I. partner. Amazon said at the time that it had the option to bring its total investment to $4 billion. It had until the end of March to do so, according to financial filings. Still, the additional investment shows the enormous resources that tech companies are pouring into A.I. and is indicative of how much financial support Anthropic needs to keep pace with its peers. “We believe our strategic collaboration with Anthropic will further improve our customers’ experiences, and look forward to what’s next,” Swami Sivasubramanian, an Amazon executive, said in a blog post announcing the investment. While Anthropic gets closer to Amazon, it has shed a bulk of the holdings of a controversial investor. Last week, a federal judge granted approval for the bankrupt …