Anthropic has upped the ante for how much information a large language model (LLM) can consume at once, announcing on Tuesday that its just-released Claude 2.1 has a context window of 200,000 tokens. That’s roughly the equivalent of 500,000 words or more than...
Amazon confirmed Monday that it is planning to lay off several hundred workers at its Alexa division as part of a shift in focus to generative AI.The company’s emphasis on developing generative AI systems has resulted in the release of new offerings, like the...
There was, in the oldness of time, demand for Apple to open up its iMessage service a little. Then, out of the blue, over-zealous company Nothing justified Cupertino’s privacy and security arguments against doing so in mere hours — even as Apple announced plans to...
The EU Commission has issued a Statement of Objections regarding Adobe’s proposed $20 billion acquisition of web-based collaborative design company Figma.The Statement of Objections is part of an ongoing investigation the Commission launched after Adobe...
The fallout over the firing of the co-founder of OpenAI continued this week, raising concerns that the uncertain future of the company could more broadly affect the future of generative AI (genAI) technology.Hundreds of OpenAI employees — nearly the company’s entire...
Chaos continues to reign at OpenAI, with the appointment of Emmett Shear, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, a video-streaming website, as OpenAI’s interim CEO after the abrupt exit of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, last week. Shear would be replacing Mira Murati,...
