OpenAI's ChatGPT faces serious competition as the company's rival, Anthropic, brings its Claude chatbot to the iPhone. Anthropic, led by a group of former OpenAI employees who left over disagreements with CEO Sam Altman, has a product that already beats ChatGPT on some measures of intelligence, and now wants to win over regular users.
Claude makes serious competition ChatGPT FOTO Anthropic
“In today's world, smartphones are at the heart of how people interact with technology. To make Claude a true AI assistant, it's essential to meet users where they are – and in many cases, that's on their mobile devices.”said Anthropic's Scott White.
“We're putting the power of Claude directly into the hands of the people. It's not just about convenience; it's about integrating Claude into the fabric of our everyday lives.”
The third version of the Claude chatbot is offered directly to users on its website in three variants: a quick and simple model called “haiku”, a slower and more powerful model called “sonnet” and, for paying customers only, the whole “opposite system”.
It's that system that took the lead in the LMSys chatbot rankings, becoming the first AI to knock GPT-4 out of pole position, and also making waves in the press for its enormous “context window.” Opus can hold about 160,000 words, enough for a user to paste a serious novel and ask follow-up questions.
So far, however, ChatGPT has faced little competition on user devices. OpenAI first released its iOS app last May and remains one of the few frontier AI models with an accessible app for consumers.
Anthropic says the Claude app will allow it to bring new features to users beyond just ease of use. “For example, the Claude iOS app can, with a user's consent, access the device's camera and photo library”White said.
“After a meeting, a business user could take a photo of a diagram on a whiteboard and ask Claude to summarize the key points, making it easy to share and act on important information. Similarly, a consumer could take a photo of a plant they come across on a hike and ask Claude to identify the species and provide more information about its characteristics and habitat.”
In addition to the iOS app, the company is also increasing its business offering with a “team” plan that allows corporate customers to purchase access to the chatbot for their entire staff.
“We started Anthropic to drive the frontier of AI safety and research. It's not something you can do in the abstract. We don't believe we would be able to positively influence the trajectory of the industry and inspire a race to the top in AI security if we weren't able to compete at the frontier”White said.
This competition seems to have an effect on the market leader. On Wednesday, OpenAI changed its policies to allow users to access their entire ChatGPT history without having to sign up to allow the company to train on their conversations in return.
