Claude learns to speak: Anthropic apparently has plans for voice control
OpenAI, Google and others have already mastered voice control for their AI models. Anthropic has now also announced that it is working on this.
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Anthropic wants to upgrade its Claude AI model regarding voice control. According to Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger, the AI start-up is currently developing internal prototypes that will allow users to communicate with Claude by voice. Another main focus of further development is currently on functions for business customers.
OpenAI has already been able to do this for some time with ChatGPT, Google with Gemini – and now Anthropic also wants to teach its LLM Claude to speak. Krieger envisions that this could also enable computer control using natural language in the future, he told the Financial Times. To catch up with its competitors more quickly, Anthropic is reportedly already in talks with Amazon and the London-based AI start-up ElevenLabs, which already have experience in this area.
Business environment as a driving force
Anthropic is hoping for new customers in the business environment in particular. According to Anthropic, sales generated with the API and with companies are growing twice as fast as those generated by user fees from consumers.
The start-up is therefore focusing on integrating AI more strongly into the everyday lives of those who spend a lot of time in meetings or working with office products. In the future, Claude could, for example, prepare salespeople for their customers by producing reports to prepare them as well as possible for upcoming sales meetings.
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Anthropic was only able to raise over 3 billion US dollars in a financing round in February. This brought the company's most recent valuation to 61.5 billion US dollars. Before the start of the financing round, it was still 18 billion US dollars.
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