Interviews with executives and staff at Anthropic reveal how an obsession with AI safety and ties to effective altruism influence the startup's decisions
what you need to know Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Anthropic releases Claude 2, its second-gen AI chatbot The Economic Times : Inside the white-hot center of AI doomerism Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Anthropic Unveils Claude 2 Second Generation AI Chatbot with Improved Reasoning John P. Mello Jr / TechNewsWorld : Kinder, Friendlier AI Chatbot ‘Claude 2’ Unveiled by Anthropic Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : Anthropic turns up the heat in the AI race with Claude 2 iTnews : Google-backed Anthropic startup upgrades its Claude AI Paul Hill / Neowin : Anthropic launches Claude 2, can write longer responses and better at coding Hayden Field / CNBC : Anthropic — the $4.1 billion OpenAI rival — debuts new A.I. chatbot and opens it to public Kyle Barr / Gizmodo : Anthropic's Claude 2 Is a Faster, Kinder, More Constricted Version of Its ‘Harmless’ AI Tristan Greene / Cointelegraph : Anthropic launches Claude 2 amid continuing AI hullabaloo Cecily Mauran / Mashable : What is Claude 2? How to access this ChatGPT competitor. PYMNTS.com : Anthropic Debuts ChatGPT Competitor Claude 2 Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Anthropic releases upgrade Claude 2 AI chatbot with improved safety and coding ability Nadeem Sarwar / SlashGear : Anthropic's Claude 2 Is The Latest ChatGPT Competitor Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Anthropic releases Claude 2, a more capable, less gullible AI chatbot Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : ChatGPT alternative: OpenAI competitor Anthropic's “Claude 2” chatbot is live Emma Roth / The Verge : Anthropic's ‘friendly’ AI chatbot, Claude, is now available for more people to try Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Anthropic releases AI chatbot Claude 2, available in the US and the UK via claude.ai and an API for businesses; Anthropic has raised $1B+, $450M in May 2023 Twitter: Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : I recently spent weeks embedded inside Anthropic, the AI lab whose models are considered some of the best, and safest, in the industry. It was a *fascinating* time — in part because everyone there appears to be terrified of what they're building. https://www.nytimes.com/... Atoosa Kasirzadeh / @dr_atoosa : cognitive dissonance overload. https://twitter.com/... Jed Shugerman / @jedshug : If this AI company didn't give itself the first name “Phil,” then it must be “Mis” @AnthropicAI https://www.nytimes.com/... Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt : Very good profile of the Anthropic team from @kevinroose https://www.nytimes.com/... Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : bunch of AI Ethics/Trust & Safety folks from Open AI got so scared that their AI would destroy humanity that they decided to form a competing startup to build a good AI? These AI doomerism...