Greetings from Amtrak en route to Albany. I'm on my way to do a keynote for The Business Council of New York State about how to leverage AI for your competitive edge.
In the news: Anthropic has unveiled "Team," an enterprise version of its AI chatbot Claude. It's designed to cater to businesses across various sectors such as technology, financial services, and health care. The offering (market priced at $30/per month) includes all of Anthropic's advanced Claude models, admin tools, and the ability to process extensive documents.
Anthropic has also released a free iOS app that will sync with web chats. An Android version is in the works.
If you're not already a Claude user, you should give it a try. While Anthropic claims that Claude outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra on industry benchmark tests, those tests won't mean much to an average user. You should try Claude because it "feels" different from ChatGPT or Gemini or Pi or Meta or Grok. How? It depends how you use it.
To me, Claude writes subjectively better for some tasks. I like the way it uses bullet points and how it breaks down complex concepts better than some of the other models. It also defaults to a more "professional concise" style (which you have to specifically ask other models to write in). Like GPT-4, Claude is multimodal, so users can upload photos, charts, documents, and other types of unstructured data for analysis and answers.
Is Claude a GPT-4 killer? In the past year, Anthropic has raised more than $7.3 billion, including $4 billion from Amazon, so the "smart money" has placed a pretty big bet.
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