Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI startup, has introduced Claude 3, a new chatbot model with advanced multimodal capabilities. The model boasts three variants, including Opus, which outperforms competitors on various benchmarks. Pricing details and future improvements have also been unveiled, marking a significant milestone in the AI landscape.
Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 AI Model
San Francisco, 4 March 2024 – AI startup Anthropic announced the release of its latest AI chatbot model, Claude 3. The new GenAI technology is available in three variants: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus, with Opus being the most powerful. According to Anthropic, Claude 3 outperforms existing models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro on several benchmarks.
Claude 3 introduces multimodal capabilities, enabling it to analyze text and images, including photos, charts, and technical diagrams. It can process multiple images in a single request but has limitations, such as difficulty with low-resolution images and tasks requiring spatial reasoning.
Pricing for Claude 3:
– Opus: $15 per million input tokens, $75 per million output tokens
– Sonnet: $3 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens
– Haiku: $0.25 per million input tokens, $1.25 per million output tokens
Anthropic aims to continue improving Claude 3, which already features an expanded 200,000-token context window, with plans to offer up to 1 million tokens for select customers. Updates will address issues like bias and hallucinations. Claude 3 will soon include source citation capabilities.
DuckDuckGo Launches AI Chat Feature
6 June 2024 – DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature called AI Chat, allowing users to choose between different AI models including OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 3, and Mistral’s Mistral 8x7B. Unlike other chatbots, DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat aggregates multiple models in one interface and emphasizes privacy by masking users’ IP addresses.
AI Chat is currently free but comes with a daily usage limit; the company is exploring a paid plan for higher limits and advanced models. Users can utilize AI Chat for tasks such as drafting emails, writing code, and creating travel itineraries, though it does not yet support image generation.
DuckDuckGo also offers DuckAssist, an AI-powered feature providing AI-generated summaries at the top of search results based on reliable sources like Wikipedia. AI Chat and DuckAssist aim to complement each other, enhancing the search and query experience for users.
Both releases mark significant developments in the AI landscape, highlighting advancements in multimodal capabilities, enhanced performance benchmarks, and a focus on privacy.
