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OpenAI Rival Anthropic Starts Claude Early Access

OpenAI Rival Anthropic Starts Claude Early Access

Anthropic has released a waitlist for early access to its AI chatbot, Claude.

OpenAI Rival Anthropic Starts Claude Early Access
shritama.saha·Published Updated

Key takeaways

  • Anthropic has launched a waitlist for early access to its AI assistant, Claude, following significant investment from Google.
  • Google's $300 million investment secures a 10% stake in Anthropic, valuing the company at approximately $5 billion.
  • Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives, Anthropic has raised a total of $580 million in funding.
  • Claude is designed as a large language model assistant, aiming to compete directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
  • Anthropic focuses on developing safe AI systems through a method called 'constitutional AI', emphasizing responsible technology scaling.
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San-Francisco-based AI safety and research lab Anthropic has introduced a waitlist for early access to its AI assistant 'Claude', following Google’s recent investment in the company. 

Register for the waitlist here.

The investment—worth $300 million—gives Google a 10% stake in the company and can value Anthropic at approximately $5 billion. The collaboration between the two companies has been hinted at, as Anthropic announced in January that it had chosen Google Cloud as its preferred cloud provider.

Founded by former OpenAI sibling duo in 2021, Anthropic raised $580 million in Series B funding round led by Sam Bankman-Fried, former chief executive at FTX—and now a suspected fraudster—among others. 

'Claude' is a large language model assistant which is claimed to give tough competition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. 

The company is focused on understanding and developing safe AI systems, utilising a unique approach known as "constitutional AI". 

With a goal of responsibly scaling AI technology, Anthropic is making progress in reverse engineering the behaviour of small language models and understanding the logic behind the pattern-matching behaviour in larger language models.

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