3 takeaways from the big AI report on Anthropic everyone is talking about - Business Insider
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Anthropic is using existing AI models to train future AI models at a dizzying pace. It's also stockpiling unreleased models. That's according to a new report from third-party safety researchers embedded at the company's San Francisco headquarters released on Thursday — a report the researchers cautioned was heavily redacted at Anthropic's insistence. "While we were able to freely share our highest-level conclusions about risk, Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence we found most informative for these conclusions," METR said in its report. To craft their report, researchers from METR, a research group perhaps best known for its report on OpenAI's Hugging Face agent breach, said they received "unprecedented access" inside the company for nearly three months. The group of six researchers interviewed employees, monitored internal Slack channels, and examined unreleased AI models using company hardware. Here are four takeaways from their report. Anthropic workers are using better AI models than the rest of us. In fact, METR's report says that over the last six months, the company has finished training three models that aren't yet available to the public. METR found that Anthropic's internal-only models include one from 2022, as well as models finished this July, sometime in August or September, and sometime in September or October. Those internal-only models are helping Anthropic improve its AI capabilities even faster, according to METR's estimates. The disclosure points to one of the AI industry's high-wire acts. Anthropic and OpenAI make money by selling the most advanced AI models to the public. Keeping state-of-the-art models private, however, also gives the companies' product and research teams a competitive advantage. Executives could keep models private for…
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