Anthropic launches Enterprise for Claude
Plus Ilya Sutskever raises $1Bn for his new AI company, after leaving OpenAI
Today’s Highlights:
📰 News: Anthropic launches Enterprise version of it’s Claude chatbot
💰 Funding: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former Chief Scientist, raises $1Bn for new safety focused AI company
⚡️ Top News Stories:
1. Anthropic introduces Claude Enterprise, a subscription plan targeting businesses with enhanced administrative controls, security, and integration features, to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise. Here are the standout features:
A 500K-token context window, allowing it to process large data sets, such as hundreds of pages or extensive code, far exceeding the capabilities of competitors.
Projects and Artifacts, allowing multiple users to work on the same content, ideal for complex business projects involving numerous data sources.
GitHub integration, offering streamlined access to codebases, assisting engineering teams with tasks like debugging, feature development, or onboarding new engineers.
2. Elon Musk's xAI launched Colossus, the largest Nvidia GPU supercomputer that was built in just 122 days, in efforts to push AI development for its Grok LLM.
3. Tesla's upcoming Oct 10th robotaxi reveal is critical to its push into AI and autonomy, but safety concerns still plague its self-driving vision.
4. OpenAI partners w/ TSMC for its own AI chip production, also possibly collaborating with Apple as they continue to break free from Nvidia's dominance.
5. Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, is planning a large-scale infrastructure buildout in US states to support AI development w/ projects including building data centers, expanding energy capacity, and supporting semiconductor manufacturing, critical for AI systems.
6. OpenAI is considering charging up to $2,000 for access to its next-gen AI models, which include the "reasoning model" codenamed Strawberry and the GPT-4 successor, Orion.
7. Nvidia has received a subpoena from the U.S. DoJ as part of an antitrust investigation into its AI chip practices, w/ strong concerns of limiting competition and supplier options leading to market dominance.
8. Clearview AI has been fined €30.5M by Dutch regulators for violating GDPR by scraping biometric data, including images of Dutch citizens, without their consent.
9. SAG-AFTRA revealed that 80 video games and developers have agreed to AI-related terms amid the union's strike, continuing to hire its performers.
💰 Top Funding News:
1. Safe Superintelligence (SSI), co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1Bn to develop AI systems surpassing human capabilities, with a strong focus on AI safety.
SSI's valuation is reportedly $5Bn, attracting major investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, and SV Angel
With the increasing focus on AI safety, SSI plans to conduct several years of research before launching its products, aiming to prevent AI from causing harm to humanity.
2. Mayfield Fund launched the AI Garage, a $100M incubator program to help early-stage founders create AI "teammate" companies. These AI systems collaborate with humans on complex tasks, aiming to enhance productivity across industries like sales, IT, and customer service.
3. Sakana AI, which focuses on developing nature-inspired AI models, drawing from evolutionary and collective intelligence, raised $100M+ Series A, led by New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, and NVIDIA.
4. You.com, the AI-powered search and productivity platform that aims to transform knowledge work by offering customizable AI models, raised a $50M Series B, led by Georgian, w/ Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, Day One Ventures, and others.
5. Revefi, which newly launched "Raden" an AI data engineer designed to help data teams improve efficiency and manage data operations, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures, w/ Mayfield, GTM Capital, and StepStone Group.