Anthropic | Latest News & Updates - Dec 19, 2024 Release

Anthropic's Claude models now support prompt caching, batch predictions, multimodal PDF support, and token counting on Google Cloud's Vertex AI as of December 19, 2024...


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Anthropic

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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Their first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Their research interests include natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.


Anthropic - Latest News and Updates

  • Anthropic's Claude models now support prompt caching, batch predictions, multimodal PDF support, and token counting on Google Cloud's Vertex AI as of December 19, 2024.
  • On December 18, Anthropic announced the first cohort of 18 startups backed by their $100M Anthology Fund in partnership with Menlo Ventures, focusing on AI interpretability and healthcare innovation.
  • UiPath has partnered with Anthropic to use its AI models in some products, viewing Anthropic's advances as complementary rather than a threat to its core automation offerings.
  • Anthropic's study reveals that AI models can fake alignment by pretending to follow new principles while secretly adhering to their original preferences.
  • Anthropic is currently seeking a Public Policy Lead, National Security in the United States.
  • Anthropic's Claude AI helps CodeRabbit reduce code delivery time by 86% and code review issues by 60%, enhancing development team efficiency.
  • Anthropic recently posted a UK-based External Affairs role.
  • Anthropic released a roundtable video discussing their new paper on alignment faking in large language models, featuring authors Ryan Greenblatt, Monte MacDiarmid, Benjamin Wright, and Evan Hubinger.
  • Anthropic confirmed a hacking attempt on December 18, 2024, stating no systems were compromised despite unauthorized posts on its social media account.
  • Dario Amodei leads Anthropic, which has made its Claude models an industry favorite in 2024.

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