Anthropic Launches a Free iOS App for Its Claude Chatbot

Amazon, Google, and Salesforce-backed Anthropic announced a free iOS app as well as its first enterprise offering called Team, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30 per user per month. The new Team plan features a 200K context window, enabling businesses to process long documents (e.g., research papers, legal contracts), discuss complex topics (e.g., financial forecasting, product road mapping), and maintain multi-step conversations (e.g., customer support inquiries, project planning discussions), helping individuals and teams gain deeper insights from their data. The Claude iOS app offers the same experience on mobile web, including syncing chat history, and support for taking and uploading photos and files from a smartphone. "Early testers report that the Claude app is exceptional for brainstorming ideas on the go, getting quick answers to questions, or analyzing scenes and images from the real world," said the start-up firm. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has closed five different funding deals totaling about $7.3 billion. The company has said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra on industry benchmark tests, such as undergraduate-level knowledge, graduate-level reasoning, and basic mathematics. This is also the first time Anthropic has offered multimodal support: users can upload photos, charts, documents, and other types of unstructured data for analysis and answers. .  

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Anthropic Releases a Library of Optimized Prompts

Anthropic, the creator of the Claude chatbot, launched a complete library of optimized prompts for business and personal purposes. This free library contains hundreds of ready-to-use Claude and AWS Bedrock prompts. The most popular include Website Wizard, Excel Expert, Storytelling Sidekick, and Lesson Planner. This system prompt in Claude is similar to custom instructions for ChatGPT. These prompts work best when used with both a System and User prompt. To access System Prompts, users need to copy and paste the prompts from the library to the Claude API Console. .

Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep U.S. College Campuses Following Arrests at Columbia, NYU, and Yale

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. college campuses following dozens of students arrested at Columbia, NYU, and Yale on Monday night due to alleged antisemitic messages. Meanwhile, Columbia University canceled in-person classes. [Photos: See scenes of protests.] Protests over the war in Gaza at a handful of elite American universities had officials scramble to defuse demonstrations. In addition to rallies, encampments have been set up at the University of California at Berkeley, MIT, the University of Michigan, Emerson College, and Tufts. "We stand with Palestine and we stand with the liberation of all people," one protester said. Others were likening the rallies to historic demonstrations over the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa. Recent videos posted online have appeared to show some protesters near Columbia expressing support for the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel. Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Manning, who toured Columbia on Monday, said she had seen protesters there calling for Israel's destruction. The wave of demos has been marred by alleged antisemitic incidents, which the White House has condemned. When asked about the rallies on Monday, President Joe Biden said he condemned both "the antisemitic protests" as well as "those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians". Students on both sides say there has been a rise in both antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents since Israel's campaign in Gaza. The NYU protesters were calling on their institution to disclose and divest its "finances and endowments from weapons manufacturers and companies with an interest in the Israeli occupation". The attack on southern Israel on 7 October saw about 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, mostly civilians, killed and 253 others taken back to Gaza as hostages. Israel responded by launching its most intense-ever war in Gaza, intending to destroy Hamas and free the hostages. More than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them children and women, have been killed in the conflict. .

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Google Cloud Launched Vertex AI Agent Builder

Google launched this month, during its Cloud Next 2024 event, Vertex AI Agent Builder, a no-code console for developers to create production-grade AI agents using natural language. It uses open-source frameworks like LangChain on Vertex AI. Developers create agents by defining the goal, providing step-by-step instructions, and sharing conversational examples. They can stitch together multiple agents, with one agent functioning as the main agent and others as subagents for complex goals. Agents can call functions or connect to applications to perform tasks for the user. Vertex AI Agent Builder can improve accuracy and user experience by grounding model outputs using vector search or Google Search to build custom embeddings-based RAG systems. "Vertex AI Agent Builder allows people to very easily and quickly build conversational agents," said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian [video]. During the same event, Google also announced Gemini 1.5 Pro, which can process up to 1 million tokens, around four times the amount of data that Anthropic's Claude 3 model can handle and eight times as much as OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo. This allows tasks like analyzing code libraries, reasoning across lengthy documents, and holding long conversations. Google has made Gemini 1.5 Pro available in a public preview via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. Meanwhile, Google's Vertex AI Model Garden is expanding the variety of available open-source models, currently providing developers with over 130 curated models. . The next big breakthrough in AI is AI Agents. This is when AI goes from being used as an assistant to chat with, to using AI to accomplish complete tasks that a human might otherwise have to perform. This moves AI from being a "read-only" operation to fundamentally a "read/write"… — Aaron Levie (@levie) April 21, 2024

The 2024 ASU+GSV Summit Multiplied Its Audience with the AIR Show [Videos]

IBL News | San Diego The 2024 annual ASU+GSV Summit drew over 7,000 learning leaders in an event that took place on April 14–17, 2024 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego under the theme 'Here Comes the Sun.' In addition, about 15,000 attendees participated in a special AIR Show on AI revolution in education on April 13–15 at the San Diego Convention Center. This new event was free, while the regular access to the ASU+GSV Summit was priced at $5,000. It featured more than 400 speakers and showcased academic and commercial initiatives on generative AI for K-12, higher ed, and the workforce. It also held live concerts and performances. The two conferences highlighted the idea of the impact and fast widespread adoption of generative AI in education, at a speed faster than any other technology has reached in the past 50 years. The ASU+GSV Summit, co-founded by Michael Moe and Deborah Quazzo, began in 2010 with a collaboration between venture capital firm Global Silicon Valley (GSV) and Arizona State University (ASU). "Obstacles create opportunities" – Michael Moe (Founder & CEO, GSV). Watch the opening keynote, 'Here Comes The Sun', at #ASUGSVSummit on demand. https://t.co/Y899iny2zs pic.twitter.com/mH3bHgnzZH — ASU+GSV Summit (@asugsvsummit) April 17, 2024 The @YassPrize returns to #ASUGSVSummit with full Forza!https://t.co/ttPDCnc5Vz pic.twitter.com/U8q2zGKiJM — The Yass Prize (@YassPrize) April 15, 2024 And that’s a wrap on another successful #ASUGSVSummit in San Diego! Thanks to @deborahquazzo and team for producing another exciting conference, and for the opportunity to engage in three important sessions exploring the future of #education and career trends.#HigherEd #AI pic.twitter.com/WZmPhrb7F0 — Kaplan, Inc. (@KaplanNews) April 18, 2024 • ASU: ASU+GSV Summit tackles big questions about AI, technology, education • Alex Tood: Exciting Revelations from the 2024 ASU+GSV Summit! • ASU+GSV: X account | X hashtag • GSV: YouTube Channel  

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