Links from March 2024

Amazon pours additional $2.75bn into AI startup Anthropic

Extra financing will bring technology giant’s total investment in OpenAI rival to $4bn

Stability AI CEO resigns because you’re ‘not going to beat centralized AI with more centralized AI’

Stability AI, which has lost more than half a dozen key talent in recent quarters, said Mostaque is stepping down to pursue decentralized AI.

Microsoft CEO on owning OpenAI, from Elon vs OpenAI lawsuit

Microsoft’s CEO boasted that it would not matter if OpenAI disappeared tomorrow. He explained that “we have all the IP rights and all the capability. We have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything. We are below them, above them, around them.”

Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper

Stable Diffusion 3 outperforms state-of-the-art text-to-image generation systems such as DALL·E 3, Midjourney v6, and Ideogram v1 in typography and prompt adherence, based on human preference evaluations.

Today we’re excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser.

Introducing the next generation of Claude

The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.