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Josh Miller, the Browser Company, and the Anthropic Advancement of Stable Video Diffusion: A Preliminary Interview with Josh Miller

Josh Miller laughs a few minutes into our conversation and admits that he almost declined today’s interview about the Browser Company. The young CEO on his way to Paris is ready to talk about Arc, an alternative web browser with artificial intelligence tools. So, what’s the reason for his hesitancy? “We weren’t sure if we wanted more people to use it,” says Miller. The problem is how many people are interested. He faces an enviable issue for a software leader.

On the cover of our 1997 March issue, WIRED editors declared, “The Web browser itself is about to croak.” Oh,TrademarkiaTrademarkias! Not only are browsers still here, ribbiting along, but developers continue to update the user experience of clicking around online.

The Browser Company began to add generative artificial intelligence. “We’ve been pretty big AI skeptics ourselves,” says Miller. “Very wary of the hype.” The interest in the new option was intense despite some apprehension. The Browser Company was forced to reach out to OpenAI and Anthropic on Arc Max’s launch day after the new AI tool surpassed the allotted data limit.

Miller was a product manager at Facebook and the White House under Obama, where he led Arc to its 1.0 launch. The software was still a hit, with positive reviews and influential users like Marques Brownlee.

After Altman’s sudden exit, while the fate of OpenAI’s leadership remained in flux, Anthropic announced a more powerful version of its Claude chatbot and Stability AI released a text-to-video generator called Stable Video Diffusion.

The Claude 2.1 model received two key updates. There is a chance to upload more data to the chatbot at once. The limit of Claude’s token is around 200,000, which is close to a 500 page book. It will take a while until the next updates to analyze War and Peace in a single prompt. The rate limit for the GPT-4 Turbo model has been capped at 128,000.

And, Anthropic claims that the new Claude is more likely to admit when it’s unsure of an answer, rather than fibbing with the utmost confidence. The company wrote that they tested Claude 2.1’s honesty by quizzing him about known weaknesses in models. A lack of veracity, often described as hallucinations, continues to be a major issue for chatbots.

The Launches of Claude 2.1 and Stable Video Diffusion at OpenAI: Not a Coincidence, but a Triumphant Celebration

In a text-to-video model, the Artificial Intelligence spits out Gif-like animations that range from eerily beautiful to downright disturbing. In addition to text-to-video capabilities, Stable Video Diffusion can transform your still images into videos by adding motion.

While this isn’t technically a new feature from OpenAI, the company rolled out ChatGPT with voice capabilities to everyone in the short period while Altman was out as CEO. The feature was previously restricted only to users who paid for OpenAI’s $20-a-month subscription service, ChatGPT Plus.

It is still not giving Spike Jonze’s Her, but the software developers at Openai gave the chatbot the ability to hold a conversation with you, another step toward their goal of multimodality. There is an idea that a chatbots can be more powerful if it can accept inputs and provide outputs in multiple ways. When will it learn to smell?

It seems like every week there is a new announcement from one of the major players. Shah says that the launches of Claude 2.1 and Stable Video Diffusion were probably just a coincidence.

The turmoil at OpenAI over the past five days has captivated the tech industry and kept entrepreneurs, journalists, and anyone who still has an X account glued to their timelines for the latest emoji updates and lower-case missives. Drop new products is what many of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies are known for.