Anthropic can understand 75k words at once

A relatively quiet weekend in AI land after the avalanche of announcements that Google made at its I/O event. Initial responses have been fairly positive with a handful folks wondering if Google is playing catch up with Microsoft and OpenAI or is simply executing on its own product roadmap.

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Here’s what we have lined up for you today -

1. Anthropic can now handle 75K words at once

2. Big name chatbots are making big time moves

3. Meta has launched their “AI Sandbox” for creatives and advertisers

4. The EU is collectively tightening the screws on AI

Anthropic can now handle 75K words at once

We shared Anthropic’s latest announcement in our previous issue but it’s definitely worth going into detail.

Last week Anthropic announced a massive upgrade to the processing capabilities to its chat bot Claude enabling it to process up to 75000 thousand words of context at once. That’s roughly a couple of hundred research papers, 100s of wikis and tens of books worth of content in a single instance.

This is 3 times more than the current context length of OpenAI. Claude is able to seamlessly summarise, map and reference information from hundreds of pages in a matter of seconds.

To demonstrate this capability Anthropic shared two short demos of Claude being used as a business analyst and a code companion. We recommend you watch the short demos here

It’s amazing to see that work that would usually take an analyst a couple of days can now be done with the help of Claude in a couple of hours. We think the possibilities are endless. Codebases, annual reports, legal docs, research papers , Claude will help you understand anything.

What will OpenAI do next ?

OpenAI has been building and shipping products faster than ever. They are heavily focused on their plugins platform augmenting the ChatGPT platform. They could in theory increase their context window in response to Anthropic.

They recently announced that ChatGPT plus users will have the browsing plugin by default when they use ChatGPT in response to Google’s Bard being connected to the internet at all times (Bard is free, ChatGPT Plus is paid) .

It’ll be interesting to see the product decisions that each of these companies makes in the coming time. Clearly with abundant financial capital the big LLM players have been able to mostly “replicate” technical LLM breakthroughs across organisations.

Let's see who gets creative and successful with a sustainable product.

Do not underestimate Bard

Google’s Bard had a slow start.

But it’s now readily available to all users, is automatically connected to the internet and most importantly is completely free.

Couple that with Google’s massive advantage in Search and you have a pretty strong case for Bard potentially being the breakout chatbot in the coming years out of all of the big players. It could be a game changer.

Meta has launched their “AI Sandbox” for creatives and advertisers 

Meta has always had strong AI and Product teams. Over the past couple of months they have seriously upped the ante with frequent research breakthroughs and consistent product upgrades integrating Generative AI.

Over the weekend the company announced their “AI Sandbox” for advertisers to build creative assets. At its core the Sandbox offer 3 fundamental features :

1. Generating and testing various versions of Ad Copy.

2. Creating brand assets for campaigns

3. Lightweight editing tools for visuals.

Meta is already an attractive place for advertisers. With Sandbox, the hope is to further increase the stickiness of their advertising platform which is indeed their main cash cow.

The EU is collectively tightening the screws on AI

This was expected. The EU will now move to collectively regulate the recent developments in AI by voting and making amendments to the AI Act.

While a broad range of recommendations have been made, the focus centres around data protection, personal identification, content moderation and even a commitment that from “foundational model makers to reduce the energy consumption and resource use of their systems and register their systems in an EU database set to be established by the AI Act.”

Bart deserves some love  

Here is Replit CEO Amjad Masad tinkering with Bard’s capabilities that are now available to all users.

Try it for yourself here - https://bard.google.com/