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🤖 A huge ChatGPT competitor emerges

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Rowan Cheung

July 12, 2023

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Happy Wednesday!

Anthropic just dropped the second-gen version of it’s AI chatbot, and it’s incredible.

Let’s get into it.


In today’s AI rundown:

  • 🚨 Anthropic launches ChatGPT competitor, Claude 2

  • 🐝 beehiiv launches brand new AI features

  • 🫣 Hidden ChatGPT Code Interpreter feature

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Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ANTHROPIC

🚨 Anthropic launches ChatGPT competitor Claude 2

Image source: Anthropic

The Rundown: Claude 2, Anthropic’s ChatGPT competitor, just debuted its second-gen version of its AI chatbot and is available for public testing in the US and UK. Try it here.

Key points:

  • Can summarize up to 75,000 words, a massive leap compared to ChatGPT's 3,000-word limit

  • Claude-2's knowledge cutoff is early 2023, while GPT-4 is September 2021

  • Outperforms GPT4 on the GRE writing, HumanEval coding, and Bar exam

  • Has abilities similar to ChatGPT Code Interpreter

  • Import an entire PDF file and have Claude 2 summarize the entire document.

  • 5x cheaper than GPT-4 for developers

Why it matters: Claude 2 is creating a serious competitor to ChatGPT. With that being said, it’s the consumers who win in the end. More competition = faster AI developments.

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BEEHIIV

🐝 beehiiv integrates AI to transform newsletters

Image source: beehiiv

The Rundown: beehiiv, a newsletter creator platform, just launched brand new AI features, possibly changing the way newsletters are written forever.

Details:

  • AI Writing Assistant: Create content based on a user’s desired output, along with other parameters such as length, tone, etc.

  • AI Text Tools: Change the tone of voice, auto-correct, auto-complete, lengthen, shorten, simplify, and more.

  • AI Image Tools: Generate images without ever needing to leave the beehiiv editor.

  • AI Translator: Translates your content into any of the most popular languages in just a few clicks

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CHATGPT

 🫣 Hidden ChatGPT Code Interpreter feature

Image source: Twitter, @DataChaz

The Rundown: A recent find on Twitter exposes that there’s more to ChatGPT’s ‘code interpreter’ than meets the eye. Turns out, it also has facial recognition powers.

Details:

  • It uses a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) based detector

  • It’s able to detect faces from different angles and sizes

  • Check out this Twitter thread on a step-by-step of how to get ChatGPT to detect your face on video

  • With Code Interpreter enabled, try it using prompts such as “how many people are in this image”

The relevance: With Code Interpreter finally available to the general public, more and more continuously gets revealed. The feature is so good that there’s even a theory that Code Interpreter is GPT 4.5.

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