Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company plans to release a “two-way” voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that allows Claude to remember more details about users and past conversations. .
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Amodei said Anthropic plans to release “smarter” AI models in the coming months and that the company is responding to the global “surge in demand.” He also revealed that he was “overwhelmed.” last year.
“The surge in demand we've seen over the last year, especially in the last three months, has stretched our ability to provide the computing needed,” Amodei said.
Anthropic is racing to keep pace with its biggest AI rival, OpenAI, in a highly capital-intensive field. Anthropic reportedly lost billions of dollars last year despite raising $13.7 billion in capital to date. Anthropic is said to be in talks to raise about $2 billion more at a valuation of $60 billion.