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Websites claim that AI startup Anthropic is circumventing their anti-scraping regulations and protocols.

A freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup responsible for the Claude large language models, of disregarding the “do not crawl” robots.txt protocol to scrape data from its websites. Additionally, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens stated that Anthropic has violated the website’s policy against using its content for AI model training. Freelancer CEO Matt Barrie described Anthropic’s ClaudeBot as the most aggressive scraper, with the company’s crawler allegedly generating 3.5 million visits to his website in just four hours. Wiens also reported that Anthropic’s bot accessed iFixit’s servers a million times…

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Meta’s latest move in the AI competition is Llama 3.1

Meta revealed on Tuesday the launch of Llama 3.1, the newest iteration of its advanced language model that is said to be on par with competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic. This update follows the introduction of Llama 3 just three months ago, which was integrated into Meta AI, a chatbot present on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as powering Meta’s smart glasses. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic have also unveiled updates to their AI models, indicating that the competition in Silicon Valley’s AI sector remains fierce. Meta said the…

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The Frontier Model Forum says it will focus on secure, careful AI development. News 

AI Safety Group Established by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI

The fact that AI development poses significant security risks is widely known. Although governing bodies are making efforts to establish regulations, currently, it primarily falls upon companies to take necessary precautions. In a recent demonstration of self-regulation, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Open AI have collaborated to establish the Frontier Model Forum. This industry-led organization focuses on promoting safe and cautious AI development, particularly in relation to frontier models. These models, defined as large-scale machine-learning models surpassing current capabilities and possessing a wide range of abilities, are the primary concern of…

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The system can now digest hundreds of pages of user-input documents at a time. AI 

Anthropic unveils Claude 2, a more advanced and less naive AI chatbot

Anthropic has released an upgraded version of its open-source ChatGPT competitor, Claude, a mere five months after its initial launch. This improved version boasts extended responses, enhanced justifications, reduced instances of hallucinations, and overall superior performance. Additionally, Claude now achieves a remarkable score in the 90th percentile among graduate school applicants on the GRE reading and writing tests. An updated version, Claude 2, is available today for users in the US and UK. It can now handle up to 100,000 characters—that’s about 75,000 words or a few hundred pages of…

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Claude is a state-of-the-art high-performance model, on the other hand, Claude Instant is a lighter, less expensive and much faster option. News 

Anthropic introduces ChatGPT competitor Claude: everything you need to know

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by former members of OpenAI, has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot called “Claude” to compete against ChatGPT. “Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training useful, honest and harmless AI systems,” the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Available via a chat interface and API in the company’s developer console, the new chatbot is capable of performing a wide range of conversational and text-processing tasks while maintaining high reliability and predictability. “Claude can help with use cases…

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