August 2023 Summaries

Amazon has released Claude 2 on its Bedrock platform, a fully managed service that makes leading foundation models accessible via an API. Claude 2 is a state-of-the-art model that excels at thoughtful dialogue, content creation, complex reasoning, creativity, and coding, built with Constitutional AI. It will be used by various companies such as LexisNexis for legal AI capabilities, Lonely Planet for AI-supported travel planning, and Ricoh USA to infuse generative AI into its operations. The service is designed to make it easier for businesses to build and scale generative AI-based applications, with a focus on data security and high-quality technical analysis. To learn more about building next-generation AI applications with Claude on Amazon Bedrock, please visit aws.amazon.com/bedrock/claude.

SK Telecom has become a commercial partner and strategic investor of Anthropic, a leading AI technology company, to develop a large language model optimized for telecommunications. The partnership aims to leverage SKT's domain expertise in telcos to fine-tune Anthropic's LLM Claude, creating customized solutions for customer service, marketing, sales, and more. Fine-tuning allows the model to scale industry experts' knowledge, providing improved performance on telco use cases. This collaboration is expected to unlock opportunities for safer and more reliable AI technology serving global telcos.

Claude Instant version 1.2 is now available through the Claude API, offering improved capabilities in areas such as math, coding, reasoning, and safety. The new model outperforms its predecessor on key metrics, including a significant increase in math performance and improved safety features. It provides longer, more structured responses and better follows formatting instructions, while also showing gains in quote extraction, multilingual capabilities, and question answering. Businesses can access the latest version of Claude Instant through the API or by indicating their interest in working with the model.