Anthropic rolls out new Claude financial agents as OpenAI rivalry escalates
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Competition between OpenAI and Anthropic, the two most prominent artificial intelligence start-ups, is intensifying as they race to expand relationships with major financial institutions.San Francisco-based Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI assistant that rivals OpenAI’s widely used ChatGPT, is launching a slate of new AI agent offerings for banks, investment managers, and insurers.The agents are meant to help those companies’ employees build presentations, synthesize webs of data sets and filings, build financial models, and complete other tasks, Anthropic said on Tuesday.Anthropic announced the new agents one day after it said it would partner with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman to create a new, unnamed entity for expanding Claude across midsize companies. OpenAI is forming a similar venture, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, underscoring stiff competition.Anthropic, run by the former OpenAI executive Dario Amodei, has muscled further into financial services since it launched a suite of tools catering to banks, financial-technology firms, and others last year.The so-called agents have pressured software stocks, whose businesses, investors worry, could be threatened by the AI-driven tools.
In early February, for instance, shares of companies that sell software to the legal industry fell sharply after Anthropic said a Claude plug-in could tackle tasks such as reviewing legal documents and contracts.Sam Altman’s OpenAI has its own set of tools for Wall Street, a realm where tech providers are competing against each other for market share. The new agents Anthropic is rolling out Tuesday include a corporate earnings reviewer, a financial statement
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