Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that the company plans to release a “two-way” voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that lets Claude remember more about users and past conversations.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Amodei also revealed that Anthropic expects to release “smarter” AI models in the coming months, and that the company has been “overwhelmed” by the “surge in demand” in the last year.
“The surge in demand we’ve seen over the last year, and particularly in the last three months, has overwhelmed our ability to provide the needed compute,” Amodei said.
Anthropic is racing to keep pace with its chief AI rival, OpenAI, in an extremely capital-intensive sector. Despite having raised $13.7 billion in capital to date, Anthropic reportedly lost billions of dollars last year. Anthropic is said to be in talks to raise another ~$2 billion at a $60 billion valuation.
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French AI lab, Mistral, is working toward an initial public offering, co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Mistral is “not for sale,” Mensch said, adding that the company plans to open an office in Singapore to focus on the Asia-Pacific region and is growing in Europe and the U.S. “Of course, [an IPO is] the plan.”
Mistral, which Mensch launched in 2023 alongside former researchers from Google’s DeepMind and Meta, is often described as Europe’s answer to U.S. incumbents like OpenAI. The lab releases AI models and services that compete with offerings from OpenAI and others, including a ChatGPT-like platform called Le Chat.
Mistral has raised around $1.14 billion in capital to date from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company was reportedly last valued at around $6 billion.
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