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Apple brings ChatGPT in, Claude gets better at the same price
On 10 June, OpenAI and Apple announced a partnership: the new AI features on iPhone and Mac would be able to call ChatGPT. Apple choosing to plug in an outside model rather than build everything itself was much discussed.
On the 20th, Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, saying it beat Opus — its top model from three months earlier — while keeping mid-tier pricing. Artifacts arrived alongside it, putting generated code and documents beside the conversation for editing.
On the 19th, Ilya Sutskever announced the founding of Safe Superintelligence (SSI).
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At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence, its own AI system, and announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Siri gained the ability to call on GPT-4o-powered ChatGPT when helpful, with users asked for permission before anything is sent. The deal drew wide attention as it put ChatGPT on one of the world's largest device platforms.
Luma AI opened Dream Machine, a video generator. Give it text or a still image and it returns about five seconds of video at 1360 × 752. There was a free tier: ten videos a day, thirty in total, without paying. OpenAI's Sora had been announced in February but was not open to the public, and places where you could actually try text-to-video yourself were still few at the time. Opinion was split. Tom's Guide called it "one of the best prompt following and motion understanding AI video models yet" while adding that "it is still falling short of what is needed," and The Verge noted that its training data was not public.
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a mid-tier model that outperformed its own top-end Claude 3 Opus while keeping mid-tier pricing and speed. The company claimed leading scores on graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate knowledge (MMLU), and coding (HumanEval), and said internal evaluation had it solving 64% of coding problems against 38% for Claude 3 Opus. Alongside it came Artifacts on claude.ai, which showed generated code and documents in a dedicated pane beside the conversation for viewing and editing — a shift from talking to an AI toward working with one, and an idea widely copied in other chat interfaces. Pricing was $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with a 200K context window.
The Recording Industry Association of America announced two copyright suits brought by Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Records — against Suno in the District of Massachusetts and against Udio in the Southern District of New York — alleging that both had copied sound recordings on a mass scale, without licences, to train their models. "These are straightforward cases of copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale," said RIAA chief legal officer Ken Doroshow. What had happened in images was now happening in music, with the difference that the rights holders moved together through their trade body. Suno and Udio were the best-known services for generating music.