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OpenAI’s Competitor, Anthropic, Has Released Its Most Powerful AI Yet

by THEFUTURE.TEAM

June 21, 2024

OpenAI competitor Anthropic has released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its most powerful AI model to date.

KEY FACTS

Claude is one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has gained extreme popularity in the last year.
Anthropic, which was founded by former heads of the OpenAI research team, has backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon.
Over the past year, the company has closed five different financing deals totaling approximately $7.3 billion.”
The news follows Anthropic’s debut of the Claude 3 family of models in March and OpenAI’s GPT-4o in May.

IMPORTANT QUOTE

“Claude 3.5 shows a marked improvement in understanding nuance, humor and complex instructions, and is exceptional at writing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone,” the company said. It can also write, edit, and execute code.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

Anthropic also announced Artifacts, which allows the user to ask the Claude chatbot to generate, for example, a text document or code, and then opens the result in a separate window.

“This creates a dynamic workspace where users can see, edit and build on what Claude has created in real-time,” the company said, adding that it expects Artifacts to be useful for code development, drafting and analyzing legal contracts, writing business reports and more.

Toyota’s Global Production Declines For 10th Consecutive Month, Yet Sales Show Growth

by THEFUTURE.TEAM

December 26, 2024

Despite a consistent drop in global production, Toyota Motor reported an uptick in worldwide sales for the second month in a row, driven by strong demand in the United States and China.

In November 2024, Toyota’s global output fell to 869,230 vehicles, a 6.2% decrease compared to the same month the previous year. This decline was steeper than the 0.8% drop observed in October.

The company’s production in the U.S. dropped by 11.8%, showing slow recovery. However, the production of models like the Grand Highlander and Lexus TX SUV resumed after a four-month hiatus in late October.

In China, Toyota’s production decreased by 1.6%, a smaller drop compared to the previous month’s 9% decline. The company benefited from higher local sales of models such as the Granvia and Sienna minivans, as well as the electric sedan bZ3, developed jointly with BYD.

As Chinese automakers like BYD gain ground, Toyota has decided to establish an independent plant in Shanghai and plans to start manufacturing electric vehicles for its Lexus luxury brand by 2027, according to a report from Nikkei.

Production in Japan, which accounts for about a third of Toyota’s global output, was down 9.3% in November. This was partly due to a two-day production halt at the company’s Fujimatsu and Yoshiwara plants.

Despite the production challenges, Toyota saw a 1.7% increase in global sales, reaching 920,569 vehicles in November, setting a new record for the month. However, for the period from January to November 2024, global production fell by 5.2% year-over-year, totalling around 8.75 million vehicles. During the same period, global sales declined by 1.2%.

These figures include Toyota’s Lexus brand but exclude sales from its group companies, Hino and Daihatsu.