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Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO (and, briefly, CEO during Sam Altman’s ouster in 2023), wrote on X that the open-weight model, called “Inkling,” was trained from scratch. Judging by the official blog post, though, it seemed like the company was purposefully setting expectations for Inkling low: “It is not the most performant model available today, closed or open … We trained Inkling for solid capabilities across the board rather than state-of-the-art performance in a single area, to serve as a foundation for the models we will train in the future.”

“Claude for Teachers” gives verified US educators complimentary Claude access, including “a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states,” Anthropic wrote. It’s part of a recent push by both Anthropic and OpenAI to introduce education-specific AI tools, for university students and beyond.

Business Insider reported that the project is focused on improving Alexa AI enough to handle more advanced, multi-step tasks, like Google, OpenAI and other AI leaders have been, but internal documents show its steep cost.

Joshua Achiam, who recently testified in the Musk v. Altman trial, wrote on X that there was “not a specific reason for me leaving, or a specific reason for why now. But it’s something I have been thinking of for a while … it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab.” He added, “The future of humanity depends on the choices we make together about AGI and superintelligence.”

A post on the Claude X account featured a video announcement. The reinstatement was announced last night, alongside a blog post by Anthropic about the weekslong negotiation process leading up to it.