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Anthropic is a developer of advanced foundation models to create AI products and services with an emphasis on AI safety and accountability.The company’s flagship product is a large language model (LLM) and virtual assistant called “Claude,” containing 175 billion parameters. It provides two versions of Claude: 1) Claude, its comprehensive model, and 2) Claude Instant, a faster and cost-effective alternative. Claude can edit, rewrite, summarize, and extract information from large volumes of text, answer questions across a broad range of topics, and automate simple tasks—all via a natural language conversation.Anthropic uses “constitutional training” to tune its Claude model, which is a method that utilizes a combination of reinforcement and supervised learning by leveraging feedback from trained and tuned AI models to ensure Claude behaves in the desired manner. The company aims to develop AIs that can help train new AI models, ensuring they are helpful, honest, harmless, and aligned with people’s interests. The company claims that it can handle complex multi-step instructions over large amounts of content with 100,000 token windows, compared to OpenAI’s 32,000.&nbsp;In November 2023, Anthropic u<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24270">pgraded its language model to release Claude 2.1</a>.Claude 2.1's new features primarily involve a more extensive context window (accommodating 200,000 tokens), heightened accuracy, and additional extensibility.In March 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27259">the company released multimodal model Claude 3 </a>to process and understand text and photographic inputs. Claude 3 can answer more questions, understand and process longer instructions, and be more accurate. The&nbsp; Claude 3 portfolio includes Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.In June 2024, Anthropic, a provider of GenAI models and applications, released <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30697">Claude 3.5 Sonnet,</a> the first model in claude 3.5 models series with USD 3 per million input tokens as well as USD 15 per million output tokens.&nbsp;The company also offers&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32668">prompt caching for its Claude API</a> allowing developers to cache frequently used context between API calls for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models,&nbsp; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33041">system prompts</a> for enhanced transparency, and&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36119">prompt improvement</a> features to improve developer productivity.&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;In February 2023, Anthropic partnered with Google Cloud, securing a USD 300 million investment. The collaboration focuses on creating dependable AI systems, with Google Cloud contributing its machine-learning infrastructure expertise to bolster Anthropic's AI research initiatives. In May 2023, the firm partnered with Zoom to integrate Claude with Zoom’s platform, starting with Zoom Contact Center.&nbsp;&nbsp;From March 2024, Claude 3 Sonnet was aimed to be available in <a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/amazon-adds-gpt-4-beating-claude-3-to-bedrock/">Amazon’s Bedrock</a>, with Opus and Haiku planned for future release. The models were also aimed to be available in Google’s <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-anthropics-claude-3-models-in-google-cloud-vertex-ai">Vertex AI</a>, with Sonnet available in public preview as of March 2024, and others set to release in future. The Claude 3 family of models was also made available on Amazon Bedrock in April 2024.In March 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27790">Anthropic partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Accenture</a> to assist organizations in deploying custom GenAI solutions responsibly while prioritizing data security and privacy. The partnership aimed to provide organizations with access to Anthropic's AI models via Amazon's Bedrock and Accenture’s GenAI switchboard for customizing AI applications. Furthermore, in July 2024, the <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31454">partnership was expanded to provide fine-tuning services for Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, </a>a compact AI model using Amazon's managed service Bedrock. <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34142">In September 2024</a>, The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approved Anthropic's USD 4 billion partnership with Amazon. The partnership enables Anthropic to utilize Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud provider and Amazon's custom chips for building, training, and deploying AI models.&nbsp;In August 2024, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32543">partnered with Deloitte,</a> a professional services firm, to integrate the Claude model family with Deloitte's industry experience to develop customized, enterprise-grade AI solutions.In October 2024,<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35590"> Anthropic partnered with Qodo,</a> an AI-driven software development platform, to introduce support for four new AI models including Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5. In November 2024,<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35783"> Anthropic partnered with Palantir and AWS&nbsp;</a>to deliver its Claude 3 and 3.5 AI models to US intelligence and defense agencies to leverage Claude through Palantir's AI Platform (AIP).

Twelve Labs offers video understanding through multimodal AI models that comprehend the visual, audio, and textual components of videos. The company's flagship offering is a cloud-native suite of APIs that allows users to upload videos, which are then transformed into vector representations capturing the context and relationships within the video content. Its proprietary Pegasus-1 model is trained on 300 million videos and 1 billion images with text descriptions and can map visual, audio, and speech components within videos to human language. Key customers and partnerships Twelve Labs’ notable customers include The National Football League (NFL) and Sketchy Medical. In March 2024, Twelve Labs partnered with Blackbird, a cloud-native video editing platform, to introduce AI-powered video analysis and auto-sequencing tools directly within Blackbird's editor. This integration enabled video editors to query footage using natural language and construct rough cuts. Funding and financials In June 2024, Twelve Labs <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30137">raised USD 50 million </a>in Series A funding co-led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm for research and development, and expand the headcount by adding more than 50 employees by the end of the year.

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Anthropic is a generative AI company building natural language chatbots with a focus on AI safety research.The company’s flagship product is a large language model and virtual assistant called “Claude.” Claude can edit, rewrite, summarize, and extract information from large volumes of text, answer questions across a broad range of topics, and automate simple tasks—all via a natural language conversation. Claude is useful in the following areas:1) Customer service: Handles simple customer queries and workflows and hands off customers to human agents2) Legal: Extracts information from legal documents3) Coaching: Guides users through personal growth or career development tasks4) Search: Allows web search and private search via natural language queries5) Back-office: Classifies, summarizes, and organizes information from multiple sources6) Sales: Acts as a sales representative that is capable of answering customer questions while remaining on-brandAnthropic uses “constitutional training” to tune its Claude model, which is a method that utilizes a combination of reinforcement and supervised learning by leveraging feedback from trained and tuned AI models to ensure Claude behaves in the desired manner. The company aims to develop AIs that can help train new AI models, ensuring they are helpful, honest, and harmless, and aligned with people’s interests.Claude chatbot is based on&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27259">Claude 3</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/37269">3.5 models</a> with multimodal capabilities. In September 2023, Anthropic launched a paid version of Claude. The new offering, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21660">Claude Pro,</a> was available in the US, UK, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29378">Europe</a> in private beta.In April 2024, the company launched an iOS app and a paid plan targeting businesses, particularly those in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, and legal. Named as Team, the plan is priced at USD 30 per user per month, with a minimum of five seats. In September it launched <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33272">Claude Enterprise,</a> a subscription plan aimed at enterprise customers. In May 2024, the company introduced a new feature termed <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30005">Tool Use</a> for its AI assistant Claude, to autonomously interact with external data sources, APIs, and tools. It also launched several new features including a&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35506">desktop app,</a> dictation feature, and&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35290">JavaScript&nbsp;</a>code analysis tool in October 2024, followed by the&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36578">‘styles'</a> feature to customize responses and&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36536">Model Context Protocol (MCP)</a> to connect Claude to data systems in November 2024.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2023, Anthropic selected Google Cloud as its preferred cloud provider. In May 2023, the company partnered with Zoom to integrate Claude into Zoom’s platform, starting with Zoom Contact Center.&nbsp;

Twelve Labs provides a platform that enables businesses and developers to access multimodal video understanding capabilities. The platform allows users to analyze and interpret video content through various modalities, including visual and auditory data. It supports the development of applications that can process and understand complex video information. The company serves industries such as technology, media, entertainment, and security.

Anthropic is an AI research company focused on the safety of AI systems. Its research includes natural language processing, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. The initial product is Claude, an AI assistant for various tasks. The company develops AI systems that prioritize safety, transparency, and alignment with human values.

SK Telecom is dedicated to developing advanced telecommunications technologies for the mobile lifestyle. SK Telecom has established an ecosystem by forming strategic alliances with Asia's information communications operators. In addition, they actively participate in a variety of international cooperation activities with overseas telecommunication institutions, as well as international organizations including the ITU, PTC and CDG, and more. Through such efforts, they continue to reinforce their competency and reach out to the world.

<div> SK Telecom Co., Ltd. (NYSE: SKM) is South Korea's largest mobile telecommunications company, headquartered in Seoul. Founded in 1984, SK Telecom has played a pioneering role in the country's telecommunications industry, introducing the first portable mobile phone service in 1988 and commercializing CDMA digital mobile phones in 1996. SK Telecom operates through several business sectors: <ul> <li> Wired and wireless communication: Providing mobile, fixed-line, and broadband services </li> <li> Media: Offering IPTV and other content services </li> <li> Enterprise: Delivering business solutions </li> <li> Aiverse: Focusing on AI technology development </li> <li> Connected Intelligence: Developing IoT and other emerging technologies </li> </ul> As of 2024, SK Telecom serves approximately 31 million mobile subscribers in South Korea. The company has been at the forefront of next-generation network deployments, launching 4G LTE services in 2011 and 5G services in 2019. SK Telecom has also expanded into areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and the internet of Things. In recent years, SK Telecom has been actively pursuing partnerships and investments to strengthen its position in the AI and cloud computing sectors. In August 2024, the company announced a strategic partnership with Lambda, an AI cloud developer, to deploy Lambda's AI Cloud platform in South Korea. This move aims to provide local AI cloud services to enterprises, startups, and research labs across the country. Additionally, in February 2024, SK Telecom revealed plans to form a joint venture with other global telecom companies to develop large language models tailored for the telecommunications industry. </div>

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Aptos Labs, a provider of layer-1 blockchain infrastructure, has joined forces with Microsoft, SK Telecom, and Brevan Howard (a fund management firm) to introduce a new decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, named Aptos Ascend. The platform is specifically designed for institutional usage and includes a range of features such as customizable tokens, regulated transaction access, zero-knowledge transaction privacy, and network controls that can be upgraded.

With this collaboration, Aptos aims to use Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure and its OpenAI solutions to expand its product portfolio. Furthermore, SK Telecom will enable users to access its wallet-as-a-service technology, ensuring regulatory compliance, while Brevan Howard will supply asset management services.

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