What you need to know about the AI models rattling markets
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artificial-intelligence tools are improving at a dizzying pace and branching into new, specialized areas. That created fears that AI could supplant traditional software and services, hammering a broad array of stocks on Tuesday.
Here’s what we know: The competing offerings from the AI startups can perform tasks in an array of job functions with minimal instruction, operating with relative autonomy on a user’s computer. Anthropic’s new legal tool can review contracts and perform other industry-specific functions, and analysts have suggested that other specialized business capabilities will surely follow. The company also released plug-ins for finance, customer service and other areas.
OpenAI released Monday a new version of its coding tool called Codex that operates in a way similar to the apps that Anthropic is building into Claude. In a note Tuesday, Morgan Stanley analyst Toni Kaplan called Anthropic’s plug-in development “a sign of intensifying competition" that could be negative for big companies in the legal space, including Thomson Reuters and RELX. Both stocks closed down around 15%.
As investor worries about new AI capabilities swept through other sectors, shares of companies that develop, license and even invest in code and systems were hit, wiping out $300 billion in market value. Millions of people have interacted with AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude from within apps and web browsers, asking chatbots questions that it helpfully seeks to answer. Now, there’s a dawning realization that these tools can do far more.
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