How is Anthropic moving so fast if it took them almost a year to produce a better model? And they have probably 1% of the market right now.
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.
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.
But yes it also helps attract talent.
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.
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.