Claude AI Can Now Control Your Computer

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In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• Claude AI Can Now Control Your Computer

• ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode launches in the EU

• 11,000+ Artists including Kevin Bacon signed a petition against AI

• Stability AI releases new Stable Diffusion 3.5 models

Anthropic
🤖 Claude AI Can Now Control Your Computer

Anthropic has announced upgrades to its Claude AI models, including an enhanced Claude 3.5 Sonnet and a new Claude 3.5 Haiku. The company is also introducing a new feature that allows the model to interact directly with computer interfaces.

Insights for you:

• Anthropic presents improved versions of its AI models Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku. Both models achieved significant performance improvements, particularly in programming tasks.

• The new Claude 3.5 Haiku model is expected to outperform the previous top-of-the-line Claude 3 Opus model in many intelligence benchmarks, at the same cost and speed as its predecessor, Claude 3 Haiku.

• Anthropic introduces a new feature for AI-driven computing. An API enables Claude to perceive computer surfaces, interact with them, and translate instructions into concrete computer commands.

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OpenAI
🗣️ ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode launches in the EU

OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode is now available for all Plus users in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. However, many previously demonstrated features are still missing, and the feature is not available in the EU.

Insights for you:

• OpenAI has launched Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT Plus and Team users.

• The feature enables voice interactions with the AI Assistant and offers improved accents and faster conversation speed.

• Many of the features demonstrated at the launch of GPT-4o, such as analyzing video or graphics in real-time, recognizing emotions in faces, or generating images, are not available in the current version.

AI
✍️ 11,000+ Artists including Kevin Bacon signed a petition against AI

More than 10,000 professional actors, musicians, writers, and other creators have signed a petition urging against AI using their work without permission for training.

Insights for you:

• Kevin Bacon, Thom Yorke, Julianne Moore, and thousands of other creatives sign a petition against AI data scraping.

• Along with individual celebrities, the statement has garnered approval from SAG-AFTRA, the American Federation of Musicians, and the International Publishers Association.

• Here is what the petition says: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”

Stability AI
🤖 Stability AI releases new Stable Diffusion 3.5 models

Stability AI has announced the release of Stable Diffusion 3.5, a new generation of image generation models. The launch includes several model variants for different user groups. The models are published under the Stability AI Community License.

Insights for you:

• Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3.5, a new generation of image generation models that can run on consumer hardware.

• Two models are immediately available: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, which has 8 billion parameters and is designed for 1-megapixel resolution, and Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, a faster version.

• A third model, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium with 2.5 billion parameters, is set to release on October 29.