Anthropic has made its Claude 3 models even more capable by enabling tool use, which allows them to interact with external tools, APIs, and databases to perform dynamic tasks. Anthropic also launched features like streaming, forced tool selection, and debugging aid to support developers.
Perplexity AI has introduced Perplexity Pages, a feature that generates visually appealing, shareable presentations on any topic based on user prompts. Users can also convert existing conversation threads into pages and have editing capabilities over the AI-generated content and visuals.
Exactly.ai is a startup that allows artists to train AI models on their artwork, enabling them to retain copyright, generate new pieces in their distinct style, and monetize their work. The company recently raised $4.3 million to expand its artist-centric approach to AI image generation.
Following his resignation from OpenAI, Jan Leike recently announced he will join Anthropic to lead a team resembling OpenAI's now-defunct Superalignment team. According to Leike, the team will work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research.
OpenAI has recently come under even more scrutiny after its Board recently agreed to create a Safety and Security Committee composed of board members (Altman included) and employees. The Committee will provide recommendations to the Board, which has the final word on their implementation.
Microsoft has launched its AI assistant Copilot, powered by GPT models and Bing Search, as a Telegram bot available under the username @CopilotOfficialBot, expanding the Copilot experience to third-party applications.
Mistral AI recently launched Codestral, a 22B-parameter model focused at helping developers with code-generation tasks, and shown to outperform models with more significant system requirements, including CodeLlama 70B, Llama 3 70B, and DeepSeek Coder 33B.
Musk's AI startup, xAI, recently announced the successful closing of a Series B at a $18 million pre-money valuation. The company plans to launch its first products to market, build on its infrastructure, and accelerate its R&D efforts.
The AI Act got its final approval; The AISI found LLMs are vulnerable to simple jailbreaking attacks; Slack opted its customers into AI training; Scale closed a Series F to address the potential AI data shortage; Pinecone serverless is now on AWS; Neuralink will implant a second device; and more.
Microsoft has unveiled "Copilot+ PCs," a new category of Windows laptops and tablets designed around dedicated AI accelerator chips that enable breakthrough AI-powered experiences like photographic memory recall, real-time AI image generation, optimized audio and video settings, and more.
DeepL, a German AI startup focused on enterprise language translation and writing tools, raised $300 million at a $2 billion valuation led by Index Ventures to drive sales, marketing, and R&D efforts as it aims to scale its offering amid rising competition in the AI translation space.
Orca AI, an AI platform that enhances ship navigation safety and efficiency through automated watchkeeping, raised $23 million to further develop autonomous ship operations technology after successfully powering the world's first autonomous commercial voyage in 2022 in partnership with NYK.