“No time to explain, get in the Orangina”

Good news for Anthropic devs: We've doubled the max output token limit for Claude 3.5 Sonnet from 4096 to 8192 in the Anthropic API. Just add the header "anthropic-beta": "max-tokens-3-5-sonnet-2024-07-15" to your API calls.

New $100M fund from Menlo in partnership with Anthropic — take a look if you’re building in this space! I’ll be joining demo days for fund companies and you’ll have a direct line to our team

Hosted a screening of the wonderful generative doc Eno. by Gary Hustwit at .Anthropic. Both the subject Brian Eno and the generative approach are a great example of an artist-first use of AI, that creates something extremely unique that couldn’t exist before.

👀Claude handles an insane request: “Remove the squid” “The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.” “Figure out a way to remove the 🦑​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

Team Claude 🫶

It seems like being extremely disciplined at managing your information diet is one of the most important skills you can master.

While we may now be building brands at different AI labs, Krithix will always be one of my all-time favorite collaborators. Excited to listen to this one.

Under-rated: Improv bed time stories with Claude 🐵🇮🇪

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That’s enough internet for today.

Northern California forever 🤍

Artifacts has genuinely changed the way I want to interact with docs — to the extent that I actually find it annoying not to be able to give all my documents instructions. Sort of a subtly mind-bending product experience that became habitual for me astonishingly fast.

Come for Econ Dario, stay for the Rabbit Alignment Problem 🐰 This was fun Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 Erik Torenberg!

"Could we make all the progress in biology that we were going to make in the 21st century using AI by speeding things up 10x? All the progress we made in the 20th century and then compress that into into five or 10 years. To me, that's the upside"

We all have a talent type. Over the years of building weird teams, mine oscillates between “the ones who were often sent to the headmistress’s office for being right” and “the good eggs your parents were relieved were accompanying you to the sketchy party venue as a teen.”

😍 It is incredibly cool to see a team’s long-term vision coming to fruition.

I had a great time chatting with three of Anthropic's top prompt engineers: Amanda Askell, Zack Witten, and David Hershey. We covered a few topics like: - what makes a good prompt engineer - practical tips for writing better prompts - what's happening inside an LLM - jailbreaks -

The marketing copy “tomorrow, today” needs to be banned.

Stoked to announce we're hosting the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on Wednesday, November 20, in San Francisco. We're sharing today that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang will be speaking Applications are now open!