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Amazon has made the latest version of Anthropic's generative AI model, Claude 3 Opus, available on its Bedrock managed AI service. This version of Claude offers higher performance on open-ended tasks and doubles the accuracy of its responses to difficult questions. Amazon aims to enable enterprise developers to build more robust applications based on generative AI, such as complex financial forecasting and R&D. Claude 3 Opus exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks. Amazon's strategy with generative AI is shifting towards selling services to business users through platforms like Bedrock. Bedrock competes with similar offerings from Microsoft and Google, but has lower costs for prompt engineering and app development. [Extracted from the article]

AMD has entered the AI PC market with its latest desktop and laptop processors. The new chips, part of the Ryzen line, feature generative-AI technology and dedicated neural processing units (NPUs). These AI-focused upgrades aim to increase productivity in areas such as automation, optimization, content creation, and security. While the AI PC concept has believers, experts note that the scope of genAI applications may be limited, and Microsoft's focus on cloud-based AI may hinder local AI development. The new Ryzen chips will be available through OEMs like HP and Lenovo in the coming months. [Extracted from the article]

Anthropic, a leading startup in the generative AI market, has released an update to its flagship models, Claude 3.0. The update brings improvements in speed, accuracy, and processing capabilities. The new version offers three options: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, each with different benchmark scores and trade-offs between accuracy and cost. Anthropic emphasizes its commitment to responsible genAI development and has taken steps to address potential risks of misuse. The Opus and Sonnet models are currently available, with Haiku set to be released soon. [Extracted from the article]

With Google having captured 90% of the search market so far, Microsoft has backed DALL-E maker OpenAI as generative AI opens up new opportunities to attract search engine users. Microsoft made DALL-E generally available for its Bing AI assistant Tuesday, just a day before Google grafted Bard AI onto its Assistant app, as the battle over AI-driven search continues to heat up. [Extracted from the article]

Apple's Vision Pro virtual and augmented reality headsets sold out quickly during pre-sales, but stable delivery dates suggest limited demand for the $3,500 device. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimated that Apple sold between 160,000 and 180,000 headsets over the weekend. The stability in shipping times indicates a potential ceiling on current demand. While the headsets have potential enterprise uses, such as field service and collaboration, third-party integration will be crucial for broader adoption. Apple's entry into the market could help catalyze demand and sales of 500,000 units this year are predicted. [Extracted from the article]

OpenAI is set to launch the GPT Store, a digital storefront that will serve as a repository for custom-built GPTs (generative AI tools). These tools can be created using OpenAI's builder functionality and have a range of potential use cases, such as math instruction and learning board games. The GPT Store will make these user-created tools searchable and shareable, with plans to allow AI makers to monetize their creations. However, there will be limits on what is available, with OpenAI's terms of service prohibiting illegal activity, hateful content, malware generation, and other high-risk activities. The launch of the GPT Store is expected to be a boost for OpenAI, offering opportunities for problem solvers beyond tech experts. [Extracted from the article]

Samsung has announced its own generative AI framework called Gauss, which will be integrated into its future products. Gauss is named after German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who made significant contributions to algebra and normal distribution theory. The framework consists of three core functions: Samsung Gauss Language, which performs generative AI tasks with text; Gauss Code, a code generation tool for software development; and Gauss Image, which generates creative images. Samsung has also emphasized its commitment to security and privacy guidelines for responsible AI development. While Gauss is currently being used internally, there is no specific timeline for public deployments. [Extracted from the article]

News Generative AI chatbot ChatGPT can keep up with currentevents thanks to a new update, and is also getting directaccess to the DALL-E 3 image-generation system The latest version of ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreakinggenerative AI chatbot, now has access to real-time informationfrom the internet at large, curing what had been seen as oneof its key flaws. Thanks to an integration with Microsoft's Bing search engine- the company is a major investor in ChatGPT maker OpenAI- the AI chatbot is now able to look up the latest availableinformation on any topic. [Extracted from the article]

Financial services and small-business software providerIntuit will be rolling out an "Intuit Assist" feature toall of its major product lines, including TurboTax andQuickBooks, building on the development of its owngenerative AI operating system. News Generative AI may be helping businesses and consumersalike as of tax season, as Intuit rolls out Assist, an AIassistant designed to bring new functionality toTurboTax, QuickBooks, and more. [Extracted from the article]

Opera, maker of the well-known browser of the same name, said today that it has successfully integrated its AI assistant, Aria, into the iOS version of the browser, making it available for the first time on all major platforms. The Opera browser, which has been around since 1995, became a Chromium-based application in 2013, and led the way in terms of features that most major browsers now include as standard, including built-in pop-up blockers and tabbed browsing. [Extracted from the article]

"As AI arrives on Opera for iOS, it's essential toemphasize that the AI experience within Opera is entirelyuser-controlled", the company said. News Multiplatform web browser Opera has its own AIassistant, Aria, now offered for iOS and availableon all major platforms Opera, maker of the well-known browser of the same name,said today that it has successfully integrated its AIassistant, Aria, into the iOS version of the browser,making it available for the first time on all majorplatforms. [Extracted from the article]

Stock content provider and creative suite Shutterstock is the latest company in its field to offer customers a legal indemnity against suits related to AI-generated images created and licensed on its platform. Like Shutterstock, Adobe said that its indemnification for AI-generated images is meant to be as similar as possible to the one that covers the company's other assets. [Extracted from the article]

DuckDuckGo said that the browser (called simply"DuckDuckGo for Windows") boasts "best-in-class" privacyfunctionality, which is enabled by default. News Privacy-focused search engine provider DuckDuckGohas debuted its own web browser on Windows, in apublic beta test DuckDuckGo, the privacy-centric internet company best knownfor its search engine of the same name, released a publicbeta of its own browser for Windows PCs today. [Extracted from the article]

Adobe's latest product offering is Firefly, a generative-AI powered image maker that is designed to be "safe for commercial use" -- so much so that Adobe is offering IP indemnification for any legal issues arising from its use. The indemnification offer is similar to the one available for Adobe's Stock assets product -- though not, according to an Adobe spokesperson, identical. [Extracted from the article]

ChatGPT's paid subscribers gain access this week to plugins allowing access to websites and Bing internet search, according to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the creator of the generative AI application. Plugins, including browsing, will roll out to users of ChatGPT's paid tier, which was dubbed ChatGPT Plus on its release in February. [Extracted from the article]

The LLM used by Bard is a lightweight variant of LaMDA, Google's main natural-language processing model. Search and hyperscale computing giant Google said today that it has opened up access to Bard, a generative AI chatbot meant to compete with similar services offered by Microsoft and OpenAI, among others. [Extracted from the article]

Computing giant Google announced today that it will release previews of three new AI features, including AI composition for Google Workspace, developer prototyping and coding via PaLM and MakerSuite, and validated models for its Vertex AI service. The final major piece announced today by Google is the new functionality for Vertex AI, which is aimed at letting companies use Google's own technology to create and customize their own AI applications. [Extracted from the article]

DuckDuckGo, the search engine focused on user privacy, announced today that it is rolling out an AI-powered instant answer service, which it calls DuckAssist, as part of a larger plan to integrate AI across its product lineup. DuckAssist, in broad strokes, is a generative AI system that uses technology from ChatGPT makers OpenAI as well as another generative AI company, Anthropic, to generate its own answers to certain types of question. [Extracted from the article]

Wickr is a relatively recentacquisition by Amazon, having started life in 2012 as apublic-facing app before being purchased in the summer of2021 by the hyperscaler. News AWS' free Wickr Me end-to-end encrypted messagingservice will close down at the end of 2023, as the companyfocuses its secure communications on enterprise andgovernment contracts Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced late last week that itwill close down the free Wickr Me encrypted messagingservice, saying in a blog post that it plans to "refocus"on its related AWS Wickr and Wickr Enterprise products atthe expense of the consumer wing of the Wickr family. [Extracted from the article]

Adobe is bringing broader integration of its document management, tracking and validation services into Microsoft's product ecosystem, including tighter connections to Teams and the Purview information protection framework. According to Charbonnier, the most important part of today's Adobe announcements is probably the Power Automate integration with Acrobat Sign -- automating the auditing of electronic signatures across the organization is a potentially powerful new piece of functionality. [Extracted from the article]