ChatGPT biggest rival heats up the AI race

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It’s more updated than ChatGPT.

It can take much larger inputs than ChatGPT.

It can read multiple documents at once, ChatGPT can’t.

It’s Claude’s version 2, and it’s coming strong to fight for the Generative AI throne.

The fight is real

For several months, ChatGPT-4 has been the undisputed king in the world of Large Language Models (LLMs).

Its raw power allowed it to obliterate every other chatbot in most benchmarks, by memorizing stuff and thriving in ever more so complicated reasoning problems.

Needless to say, the biggest proof that GPT-4 is considered the best model in the game is that most open-source models, trained with distillation (a process where a larger model teaches a smaller one to imitate it), used ChatGPT as the teaching model, even though it’s the most expensive model in the world, by far.

But a group of distinguished, ex-OpenAI researchers is really giving OpenAI a run for its money with their model Claude, a model whose version 1 was already considered “on par” with ChatGPT’s 3.5 version.

Now, they’ve launched version 2, and considering how great version 1 looked, it’s obvious who they are coming for now.

But if you think this is just a straight comparison between two almost identical chatbots, you’re very wrong.

The reality is that this model brings many things to the table that make it different, and unique.

Do we have a new heir to the throne?

An updated, elongated beast

The two biggest differences between this new Claude and ChatGPT are its time cutoff and the context window.

On the former, while ChatGPT is famously limited in knowledge until September 2021, Claude is up to date with current times (although not daily updated like Pi is, the chatbot we covered last week).

On the latter, ChatGPT is limited to an already-awesome 32k tokens — or around 26,000 words per prompt — while Claude handles up to 100,000, or 75,000 words, the entire transcript of six Star Wars films combined.

This, considering that you can send Claude multiple documents at once, allows for something completely unseen until now in AI, you can send multiple document sources and generate content that considers all of them combined.

Thinking about creating a report on topics that require multiple documents and thousands of words?

Claude’s got you, and the most impressive thing is that… only Claude’s got you, as it’s literally your only option in this case, not even ChatGPT.

Consequently, in certain use cases, Claude is in a league of its own.

Yet, another impressive thing about Claude is code.

Explaining and improving

Out of all the demos shown, this was probably the most striking one.

Claude is capable of understanding code, debugging it, and even suggesting or executing improvements on command.

This means that Claude 2 is poised to become a real competitor to GitHub Copilot and GPT-4 as a copilot assistant for coders, something no one else can say today.

But what makes Claude really unique? Well, it’s…

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