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Anthropic News: Week Ending 05/17/2024

May 17, 2024

I decided to try a theme with this week’s cover imagery to see how creative MidJourney could be with simple prompts. Each category cover image is a name tag + art style. It was pretty neat to see the variances. The goal is not perfection. By posting the mistakes, we’ll get to see how imagery improves over time. Here is the prompt for the cover:

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“I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined @AnthropicAI as their Chief Product Officer! The team at Anthropic is exceptional, and I felt at home from my first conversations with them. Daniela, Dario, Jared and the team embody the combination of deep talent, high empathy, and”

I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined @AnthropicAI as their Chief Product Officer!

The team at Anthropic is exceptional, and I felt at home from my first conversations with them. Daniela, Dario, Jared and the team embody the combination of deep talent, high empathy, and…
— Mike Krieger (@mikeyk) May 15, 2024

Anthropic’s new CPO is Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157240/mike-krieger-anthropic-instagram-ai

“Three more highly requested tool use features rolling out to @AnthropicAI devs today: – Streaming – Forced tool use – Vision Let’s break them down 🧵”

Three more highly requested tool use features rolling out to @AnthropicAI devs today:

– Streaming
– Forced tool use
– Vision

Let’s break them down 🧵
— Alex Albert (@alexalbert__) May 16, 2024

Alex Albert on X: “1) Streaming Tool use now supports fine grained streaming just like our normal Messages API for more natural end user experiences (especially important for long outputs). https://t.co/Y5o0pRfi4z” / X – https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1791137394563133849

Alex Albert on X: “2) Forced tool use With our new “tool_choice” parameter, you can force Claude to use a specific tool, force it to use any relevant tool, or let it intelligently decide whether to use tools at all. Read the cookbook here: https://t.co/YF9PGAzwDq” / X – https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1791137396798677234

Alex Albert on X: “3) Vision We’ve added support for tools that return images, laying the foundations for multimodal tool use across key sources of knowledge like images, charts, etc. Read the cookbook here: https://t.co/mLQJVzc1No” / X – https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1791137398266659286

Claude is now available in the EU \ Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-europe

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AI News #33: Week Ending 05/17/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links

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