New Anthropic models, xAI’s developer API, and OpenAI’s SearchGPT — the top 3 AI news stories of the week

#1 — Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and analysis tools feature

Anthropic has released: the new Claude 3.5 Haiku and an updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The 3.5 Sonnet has been enhanced with a “computer use” feature — it allows the model to interact with any app in much the same way a person would, by seeing what’s happening on the user’s screen and send commands to specific programs. These will control your computer: moving the cursor, opening files, websites, etc. This new capability is still in beta, released for developer feedback, and is expected to improve quickly.

There is also a new built-in analysis tool feature for Claude.ai. It enables the model to write and run JavaScript code, performing JavaScript calculations in dialogue with the user, similar to OpenAI’s Python interpreter, but client-side.

#2 — xAI releases a developer API

Another promising giant in the AI race, xAI, has finally released its API for developers. It is still in beta, but anyone can try it. The single Grok Beta model, which may be Grok 2, is available at a price of $15 per million output tokens.

#3 — We waited, and it has arrived: SearchGPT can now be used in Chrome instead of Google Search

OpenAI has released SearchGPT. Now, paid subscribers can directly invoke the search functionality, created using a mix of technologies including Bing, right in the chat. You can search for anything — the model parses all necessary data and supplements it with LLM functionality. With the integration of web search functionality into ChatGPTs interface, it has become a competitor to Perplexity and even Google. Using the official plugin, you can change the default search engine in Google Chrome to OpenAI’s search.