Anthropic Co-Founder & CEO Dario Amodei speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco, California. Photo: Kimberly White / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFPAnthropic, a major player in generative artificial intelligence, announced new models to fuel its Claude chatbot, the company said on Monday, as ChatGPT faces more rivals.
Founded in 2021, Anthropic was created by former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and has been funded by Google and partnered with Amazon to develop new technology. But this approach has faced pushback after last month's release of Google's Gemini model that was criticized for gaffes such as generating images of ethnically diverseSome industry observers are also complaining that chatbots have become less impressive as companies introduce tighter controls in response to controversies involving the technology going off the rails or giving incorrect answers.
Anthropic said its model Opus was the most powerful of the three and could outperform its peers on key benchmarks, including mathematics.