Anthropic continues to maintain pace with the other frontier AI labs, releasing new functionality like Computer Use, which lets the company’s current best model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, perform tasks on a PC autonomously. But Anthropic has also faced its fair share of setbacks recently. The company unexpectedly hiked the price of one of its models, and it’s seen the timetable slip for the launch of its long-awaited, next-generation Claude model, 3.5 Opus.
In a bid to boost revenue, Anthropic has shifted some of its focus to releasing new tools and plans on top of existing models, including a desktop client, an enterprise tier, and mobile apps.
Anthropic’s CEO was once the VP of research at OpenAI, and reportedly split with the firm after a disagreement over OpenAI’s roadmap. Amodei brought with him a number of ex-OpenAI employees to launch Anthropic, including OpenAI’s former policy lead Jack Clark.
Anthropic has often attempted to position itself as more safety-focused than OpenAI.