Powered by Data - March 11, 2024

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Last Week in Conversational AI

• Inflection AI's chatbot Pi has reached a milestone of over 1 million daily active users. Backed by Microsoft, the startup has unveiled an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence, called Inflection-2.5, to compete with other models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini. This new model is accessible to Pi users via the pi.ai website, iOS and Android apps, and a newly introduced desktop application. Launched in May last year, Pi utilizes generative AI technology to engage users in conversations, allowing them to ask questions and share interests.
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• Authors suing OpenAI lose bid to halt rival N.Y. copyright lawsuits. A federal judge in California denied their request to block OpenAI from defending against related cases filed in Manhattan by the New York Times and high-profile writers like John Grisham and George R.R. Martin. California authors, including Michael Chabon and Ta-Nehisi Coates, had accused OpenAI of using their books without permission to train its chatbot ChatGPT. Despite their efforts to halt the copycat cases in New York, the judge found no exceptional circumstances to justify an injunction.
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• Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon, unveiled an updated group of AI chatbots named Claude 3. The company claims that Claude 3 Opus, the most intelligent among the three new models, surpasses Google’s Gemini Ultra and OpenAI’s GPT-4 in various benchmark tests, demonstrating near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks.
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