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Anthropic receives $2.75B investment tranche from Amazon
Top stories today:
- Anthropic receives $2.75B investment tranche from Amazon
- Claude 3 Opus becomes #1 model, surpassing GPT-4
- SBF expected to get 20 to 50-year sentence at 9:30 AM ET
- Databricks releases open-source DBRX LLM, says it is #1 open model
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1. Anthropic receives $2.75B investment tranche from Amazon
Anthropic is the #2 most well-funded generative AI startup, right behind OpenAI:
Sep.: $4B total investment, with the initial $1.25B concluded then.
$18.4B valuation, according to sources.
2. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus becomes #1 model in Chatbot Arena, surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4
Regular users vote blindly on which model responses they prefer.
GPT-4 is 1-year-old, but its latest versions have gotten worse, rather than better, according to this leaderboard.
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4. SBF expected to get 20 to 50-year sentence at 9:30 AM ET
According to prediction markets Manifold:
Prosecutors are seeking 40-50 years, vs. 6.5 years for SBF.