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? Why most AI benchmarks tell us so little

On Tuesday, startup Anthropic?released ?a family of generative AI models that it claims achieve best-in-class performance. Just a few days later, rival?Inflection AI ?unveiled a model that it asserts comes close to matching some of the most capable models out there, including OpenAI’s?GPT-4 , in quality.

? NFT platform Zora is offering a novel way for AI model makers to earn money

Zora, an NFT-based social network platform, is continuing its expansion beyond the crypto-sphere into the hot artificial intelligence market, Dee Goens, the startups’ co-founder,?said on Chain Reaction .

? AI2 Incubator scores $200M in compute to feed needy AI startups

AI2 Incubator , spun out of the Allen Institute for AI in 2022, has secured a windfall $200 million in compute that startups going through its program can take advantage of to accelerate early development.

? Brevian is a no-code enterprise platform for building AI agents

Sunnyvale-based?Brevian ?wants to make it easier for business users to build custom AI agents. Currently, the company is focused on support teams and security analysts — areas where both the use cases and training sets are well defined — but plans to expand to other areas over time. Brevian is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $9 million seed funding round, the company told TechCrunch exclusively.

? Turnitin laid off staff earlier this year, after CEO forecast AI would allow it to cut headcount

People worry that advances in AI will lead to job losses, but rarely does a company’s CEO openly admit that AI will help to reduce their headcount.?Turnitin , a plagiarism detection company whose CEO?Chris Caren ?last year warned that, in 18 months, his company would be able to reduce 20% of its headcount thanks to AI, is today confirming a small set of layoffs.

? We tested Anthropic’s new chatbot — and came away a bit disappointed

This week, Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google, Amazon and a who’s who of VCs and angel investors, released a family of models —?Claude 3 ?— that it claims bests OpenAI’s?GPT-4 ?on a range of benchmarks.

? ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with?short text prompts ?has evolved into a behemoth used by more than?92% of Fortune 500 companies ?for more wide-ranging needs. And that growth has propelled OpenAI itself into becoming one of the most-hyped companies in recent memory, even if?CEO and co-founder Sam Altman’s firing and swift return ?raised concerns about its direction and opened the door for competitors.