"OpenAI's formidable rival" closely follows in the footsteps of OpenAI and intends to embed image analysis capabilities into Claude.

Zhitong App has learned that according to undisclosed wording in the source code of Anthropic, an AI startup, this company, known as the "rival of OpenOpenOpenAI," is developing a feature that enables its OpenOpenAI-like chatbot, Claude, to analyze images comprehensively. This tool can enhance the appeal of Anthropic's Claude to users and help the company catch up with larger competitors like OpenOpenOpenAI and Alphabet-C.

The two most popular OpenOpenAI chatbots in the world currently, OpenOpenOpenAI developed by OpenOpenOpenAI and Bard developed by Alphabet-C, already have the ability to thoroughly examine and analyze images. This technology allows OpenOpenAI chatbots to perform tasks such as identifying the breed of a dog in a photo, comparing two t-shirt images for differences, or describing a piece of artwork.

It is reported that Anthropic has not publicly discussed this new feature with users, but some media outlets have examined the wording in the website code written using Alphabet-C development tools and found unpublished text related to image recognition capabilities. It is understood that some of the unpublished text provides details about using image analysis, suggesting that users "talk to Claude about images" and ask questions related to images. The unpublished wording also suggests that users give prompts to the OpenOpenAI chatbot, such as "tell me three other architectural works by this architect," "write five versions of ad copy for this product in the picture," and "what economic forecast indicators are implied in this chart?"

A spokesperson for Anthropic declined to comment on the reports. Currently, Claude, the OpenOpenAI chatbot under Anthropic, can only respond to text commands and parse text-based documents. The website suggests that it may be more suitable for the program to perform text-based tasks, such as "summarize this PDF document" and "help me practice Spanish vocabulary."

"What is Anthropic, the 'rival of OpenOpenOpenAI'?"

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former core employees of OpenOpenOpenAI, positioning the startup as focused on "responsible AI and security systems." This San Francisco-based company released the OpenOpenAI chatbot Claude in 2023, with major clients including pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and video communication giant Zoom Video Communications. According to media reports last month, Anthropic is in negotiations to raise $750 million in its latest round of financing, led by Menlo Ventures. With the global trend of enterprises investing heavily in generative AI, it is expected that after this round of financing, Anthropic's valuation could reach $18.4 billion, nearly 4.5 times its valuation earlier this year of $4.1 billion.

Menlo Ventures is a leading figure in the global venture capital industry. Since its establishment, this renowned venture capital firm has invested in over 400 companies, including Uber, Gilead Sciences, Fab.com, and Roku. Its successful investment cases include over 70 companies that have successfully gone public and more than 100 acquisitions.

When it comes to the many competitors of OpenOpenOpenAI worldwide, Anthropic is often considered the strongest. Founded by Dario Amodei, former Vice President of Research Engineering at OpenOpenOpenAI, and his sister Daniela Amodei, Anthropic is backed by five other employees who were responsible for the development of the GPT series of large models. Among these employees, Tom Brown led the entire development process of the GPT-3 model. Dario Amodei's sister is the Vice President of Software Security and Policy at OpenOpenOpenAI.

Both OpenOpenOpenAI and Anthropic are using their proprietary state-of-the-art generative AI technology to build chatbots. Compared to OpenOpenOpenAI, Anthropic's chatbot, Claude, is capable of summarizing approximately 75,000 words in one go, which is the length of a book. Users can input large datasets and request summaries in the form of memos, letters, or stories. In contrast, although OpenOpenOpenAI does not have strict word limits, its memory and focus in conversations are limited, making it more suitable for handling shorter dialogues and content. This makes Claude 2 more suitable for in-depth analysis of large volumes of documents, while OpenOpenOpenAI focuses more on interactive conversations and concise content processing.