Weekly Tech Recap: Anthropic releases its GPT-4o rival, X restricts free users from starting live streams and more

1) Anthropic releases its astir almighty connection exemplary yet: 

Anthropic, the shaper of the fashionable Claude AI chatbot, has released a caller AI exemplary called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which claims to outperform GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro successful a assortment of tasks. The caller exemplary is disposable for escaped connected the Claude website and iOS app. However, premium users volition get up to 5x higher complaint limits.

According to Anthropic, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro successful astir wide and imaginativeness benchmarks. The caller connection exemplary comes with a 200K token discourse window, which translates to astir 1500 words.

In presumption of real-world use, Anthropic says Claude 3.5 is claimed to beryllium amended astatine knowing nuance, humour and analyzable instructions portion besides offering a much earthy and relatable code successful its writing. Coding skills are besides said to person improved dramatically, with Anthropic stating that Claude 3.5 Sonnet tin independently write, edit and execute codification with "sophisticated reasoning and troubleshooting capabilities".

2) X won't let escaped users to commencement unrecorded streams:

Elon Musk-owned societal media level X announced connected Friday that it volition soon necessitate users to person a premium subscription successful bid to commencement a livestream. The caller update comes soon aft X made likes connected the level backstage for each users.

X did not springiness a timeline for erstwhile the livestream diagnostic would spell down the paywall but said it would hap "soon". Users volition besides nary longer beryllium capable to commencement livestreams via the X integration connected the encoder platform.

The quality was confirmed successful a station from the authoritative '@live' illustration connected X, which read:, “Starting soon, lone Premium subscribers volition beryllium capable to livestream (create unrecorded video streams) connected X. This includes going unrecorded from an encoder with X integration. Upgrade to Premium to proceed going live,"

3) Apple explains wherefore iOS 18 AI features are not coming to older devices: 

Apple announced its foray into the satellite of artificial quality with the accomplishment of Apple Intelligence astatine the WWDC 2024 lawsuit earlier this month. Apple Intelligence brings with it a big of nifty features, including a revamped Siri interface that tin clasp conversations for longer periods of time, Photos app makeover, integration with ChatGPT, and the quality to make images and emoji.

While astir of the caller AI features aren't apt to get this year, erstwhile they do, they'll beryllium constricted to the iPhone 15 Pro and aboriginal models. This means that adjacent the latest iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus volition not get the caller AI features.

Speaking to John Gruber of the Daring Fireball podcast, John Giannandrea (Apple's vice president of instrumentality learning and AI strategy) explained the crushed down wherefore Apple's caller AI features are not coming to older devices. He said portion the AI models that powerfulness Apple Intelligence could theoretically tally a precise aged device, they would beryllium truthful dilatory that they would not beryllium utile astatine all.

Giannandrea said, “The inference of ample connection models is incredibly computationally expensive… You could successful mentation tally these models connected a precise aged device, but it would beryllium truthful dilatory that it would not beryllium useful"

4) WhatsApp could soon rollout a caller QR codification diagnostic for transferring chats:

Meta-owned idiosyncratic messaging level WhatsApp is reportedly gearing up to present a slew of caller updates aimed astatine enhancing idiosyncratic experience, with a standout diagnostic that simplifies chat past transfers betwixt devices done QR codes.

According to WABetaInfo, this innovative chat transportation capableness is portion of the latest beta version, 2.24.9.19, and promises to marque moving chat information from 1 instrumentality to different importantly easier, bypassing the request for Google Drive.

Reportedly, the upcoming diagnostic is apt to leverage QR codes to straight transportation chat information betwixt devices. When a idiosyncratic upgrades to a caller phone, WhatsApp volition make a QR codification connected the aged device, encapsulating each chat past and data.

5) Adobe leverages AI to let users to make and edit images wrong PDFs:

Adobe is adding immoderate caller generative AI features to Acrobat Reader to assistance users beryllium much originative and productive with integer documents. The institution volition present let users to make and edit images successful PDFs utilizing conscionable substance prompts.

Powered by Firefly AI, Adobe says Acrobat is the archetypal exertion to connection in-app generative AI capabilities. The caller update adds 2 caller features: Edit Image successful Acrobat and Generate Image successful Acrobat.

The Edit Image diagnostic volition springiness users entree to tools specified arsenic generative fill, region background, erase and crop. It volition let users to erase unwanted objects from images, region backgrounds and adhd caller images straight from the Acrobat Reader application.

Meanwhile, the Generate Image diagnostic allows users to adhd caller images to their PDFs utilizing the powerfulness of the Firefly Image 3 model. With this feature, users volition beryllium capable to set the size and benignant of an representation and adhd it to immoderate portion of a document.

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Published: 23 Jun 2024, 02:27 PM IST