$4 Billion: Amazon’s Biggest Bet Ever is on Anthropic
and other AI news you should know of this week.
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Amazon’s $4 Billion Bet on Anthropic
Big Tech updates continue to prove how critical developing large language models has become.
San-Francisco based AI startup Anthropic has become the recipient of a hefty $2.75 billion cheque from Amazon, allegedly the biggest in the company’s history!
This investment is a follow-up on the initial $1.25 billion it invested in Anthropic in September last year, bringing the entire investment to $4 billion.
The reason? Anthropic is the most promising alternative that exists to Microsoft, Amazon’s primary cloud rival. Moreover, according to the LMSYS Chatbot Arena that relies on human votes, their AI model and chatbot Claude has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4, bringing the latter to the 2nd place for the first time since its launch!
It’s also interesting to note that all three versions of Claude 3 have made it to the top 10. As a free user you get access to Claude 3 Sonnet.
Interested? Try Claude here :)
You Can Now Generate AND Edit Images In DALL-E
Not so long ago DALL-E 3 had added integration with ChatGPT to help users not stress over writing the perfect descriptive prompts.
There are now more features to help you generate your AI masterpieces. Image editing tools will now be available while using DALL-E within ChatGPT.
Additionally, you can now also seek inspiration on image style and creation through the preset style suggestions offered by DALL-E.
If you’re a ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise user you can try it out, see the demo video posted by OpenAI here.
The First Batch of Videos Generated by OpenAI’s Sora
OpenAI has also been working on a new text-to-video tool, Sora, and from the first batch of videos that we’re seeing of the tool, the promise is there.
OpenAI first shared it with people in February, informing that the tool could produce videos up to 1 minute in length from one single prompt
Whew.
Recently, a bunch of actual artists including designers and filmmakers got early access to OpenAI’s Sora. Trust me when I say the produced videos look “surreal”.
Shy Kids, a Toronto-based multimedia production company created a short video, Air Head, with Sora, featuring a person with a yellow balloon for a head.
OpenAI shared a blog post for the same with videos as well as first impressions:
While we have many improvements to make to Sora, we're already getting a glimpse of how the model can help creatives bring ideas to reality.
This definitely opens up a room for discussions around how AI will now be used in aiding creative processes, especially the ones as intricate as filmmaking.
How did you like the videos? What is your opinion on this entire thing?
Talk to me in the comments below👇🏼
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