Anthropic as a company only was created after GPT-3 (Dario Amodei's name is even on the GPT-3 paper).
So, in same time OpenAI have gone from GPT-3 to GPT-4, Anthropic have gone from startup to Claude-1 to Claude-2 to Claude-3 which beats GPT-4 !
It's not just Anthropic having three releases in time it took OpenAI to have one, but also that they did so from a standing start in terms of developers, infrastructure, training data, etc. OpenAI had everything in place as they continued from GPT-3 to GPT-4.
I pay for both of them and I keep finding myself coming back to GPT-4. Not only do I think the UI is vastly superior, I have not experienced a significant difference in quality of output between the two. I regularly ask both of them the same question and respond with follow-ups to both of them.
I had a funny thought when Anthropic was still a new startup. I was browsing their careers page and noticed:
1. They state upfront the salary expectations for all their positions
2. The salaries offered are quite high
and I immediately decided this was probably the company to bet on, just by virtue of them probably being able to attract and retain the best talent, and thus engineer the best product.
I contrasted it with so many startups I've seen and worked at that try their damnedest to underpay everyone, thus their engineers were mediocre and their product was built like trash.
Agreed with the spirit of this post. OpenAI also pays very well though and has super high caliber talent (from what I can see from friends who have joined and other online anecdotes).
Every paying customer Anthropic gains is a paying customer that OpenAI loses. The early adopters of OpenAI are the ones now becoming early adopters of Claude 3. Also 200k context window is a big deal .
I don't completely disagree with you but personally, Claude 3 doesn't seem like a big enough upgrade to get me to switch yet.
I have also personally found that minimizing the context window gives the best results for what I want. It seems like extra context hurts as often as it helps.
As much as I hate to admit it too but there is a small part of me that feels like chatGPT4 is my friend and giving up access to my friend to save $20 a month is unthinkable. That is why Claude needs to be quite a big upgrade to get me to pay for both for a time.
I kind of feel the same way. I have a lot of chats in Chatgpt .. I have also been using it as a sort of diary of all my work . The Chatgpt app with voice is my personal historian!
However once I figure out a way to download all my chats from Chatgpt, I think Claude' 200k context window may entice me to rethink my Chatgpt subscription.
I've only been using GPT via Bing CoPilot... How does the history work in the ChatGPT app? Is it just that old conversations are stored, or are they all part of the context (up to limit)?
