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by HarHarVeryFunny 810 days ago
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.

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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).
Depending on the state, it is now a legal requirement for salaries posted up front. This is a requirement in California, Colorado and NY.

But yes it also helps attract talent.