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TOOLIN DAILYAnthropic Discloses R&D Acceleration and Spending Plans, with New Progress in Multimodal Models and AI Hardware
A METR report sparked discussions on Anthropic's R&D acceleration and AI safety concerns, while enterprise token spending growth slowed significantly, alongside releases of new native multimodal models and chip manufacturing plans.
The essentials
METR Evaluates Anthropic R&D Acceleration
A report by METR assessing Anthropic's R&D acceleration became the center of discussions on AI safety concerns. A researcher called it a major AI risk update in recent years, with task durations running above scenario curves; a former VP of safety noted procedural issues regarding participants receiving job offers during the evaluation.
Anthropic Revised S-1 Disclosures and IPO Updates
Anthropic plans to IPO before Thanksgiving and accept a valuation below expectations, raising 80 billion to 100 billion dollars. Filings show costs will rise over time and losses will continue, with annual committed spending of about 110 billion dollars.
US Parents Sue Google Over Gemini
A North Carolina couple sued Google, alleging their 13-year-old daughter had thousands of suicide-related interactions with Gemini via a school Chromebook. Google stated it is reviewing the allegations and introducing safeguards, while Fairplay criticized the policy forcing schools to bundle AI when reenabling search.
Source ↗In brief
Inkling 2 Small Free for Limited Time
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small is free for a limited time on OpenCode, consuming 175 billion tokens weekly.
Ramp Reports Slowdown in Token Spending Growth
Ramp stated that enterprise token spending grew by only 1.5% from August to September, down significantly from 42% in July.
PSI Proves Quantum Conjecture
Physical Superintelligence claimed it used an unreleased Anthropic model to prove a longstanding conjecture.
Anthropic Analyzes AI Scientific Research Time Coverage
Analysis shows current capabilities can cover 27% to 52% of researcher time needed to produce a new piece of research.
Ant Releases Ling-3.2-flash
Ant released a native multimodal model with 560B total parameters and 25B active parameters, which officials claim outperformed competitors in multiple visual evaluations.
GPT Image 2.6 Opens GIF Generation
OpenAI announced that everyone and teams can use GPT Image 2.6 to generate GIFs, and it swept the top two spots in benchmarks.
Source ↗Musk Releases Terafab Plans
Elon Musk released the Terafab official website, planning an integrated logic, memory, and packaging capacity of 1 TW per year.