We’ve all got that friend who’s a bit forgetful. You tell them a story, and then the next time you see them, you have an update, but you have to explain the whole set of circumstances to them again.

Let’s call that friend Claude. Hypothetically. Claude’s clever (if a little prone to hallucinations), but the next time you see him, he references your past conversation. You don’t have to spend time getting him all caught up again.

That’s the situation Anthropic’s ChatGPT competitor finds itself in… and which just happens to also be named Claude. Funny world.

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Anthropic’s origin story begins at OpenAI. Dissatisfied siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei left OpenAI and founded Anthropic in 2021, whose Claude generative AI quickly sprang up as a worthy competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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