Zoom just partnered with and invested in Anthropic to bake its Claude chatbot across its productivity suite. The AI will first land in Zoom Contact Center to improve customer self-service and pull up helpful materials for human agents, adding to Zoom's existing OpenAI tie-up. Why it matters: Zoom is adopting a multi-model strategy to keep up with Slack and Microsoft.
Anthropic just expanded Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or about 75,000 words. The model can now digest hundreds of pages of documentation, books, or financial reports and synthesize answers in seconds. The 100K context window is available now via Anthropic's API.
Vice President Kamala Harris is summoning the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to the White House this Thursday for a frank discussion on AI risks. Top administration officials will push for guardrails and ethical standards to mitigate potential fallout. Basically, Washington wants proof that these models are safe before they are unleashed to the wider public.
Anthropic is looking to raise up to $5 billion over the next two years to challenge OpenAI, according to leaked pitch deck documents. The startup plans to spend $1 billion over the next 18 months to train a frontier model tentatively called "Claude-Next," promising 10 times the capability of current leading systems.
Anthropic just made its next-gen AI assistant Claude available across chat and API. Designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless, it arrives in two versions: the flagship Claude and a faster, cheaper Claude Instant. Early partners like Notion and Quora highlight its steerability and natural conversational style.
Anthropic just began opening access to its text-generating AI models to select partners, kicking off commercialization with legal tech startup Robin AI. Robin is fine-tuning the model to help lawyers draft and negotiate contracts. The move signals that the safety-focused research lab is ready to monetize and take on OpenAI directly.
Google just invested roughly $300 million into AI startup Anthropic for a 10% stake, backing the team of former OpenAI researchers behind Claude. Anthropic also named Google Cloud as its preferred cloud partner. Why it matters: Google is racing to build its own heavyweight counterweight against Microsoft's massive bet on OpenAI.
