AI startup Anthropic — backed by Google and Amazon — unveils new chatbot to rival ChatGPT

Artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic — whose backers include Google and Amazon — on Monday launched an updated group of AI chatbots called Claude 3, claiming they are its fastest and most powerful yet.The company claims Claude 3 Opus, the most intelligent of its three new models, outperforms Google’s Gemini Ultra and OpenAI’s GPT-4 across industry benchmark tests, including level expert knowledge, graduate-level expert reasoning, and basic mathematics.“It exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and ...