OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI

Two starring AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, conscionable announced large initiatives successful higher education. It’s the changeless one-upping we’ve each go acquainted with: this week, Anthropic dropped their announcement astatine 8 AM Wednesday, portion OpenAI followed with astir identical quality astatine 8 AM Thursday.

For Anthropic, this week’s announcement was its archetypal large world push. It launched Claude for Education, a university-focused mentation of its chatbot. The institution besides announced partnerships with Northeastern University, London School of Economics (LSE), and Champlain College, on with with Internet2, which builds assemblage tech infrastructure, and Instructure (maker of Canvas) to summation “equitable entree to tools that enactment universities arsenic they integrate AI.”

At the halfway of Anthropic’s education-focused offering is “Learning mode,” a caller diagnostic that changes however Claude interacts with students. Instead of conscionable providing answers, the property merchandise says Learning mode volition usage Socratic questioning to usher students done problems, asking “How would you attack this?” oregon “What grounds supports your conclusion?” — with the extremity of helping students ”develop captious bladed …

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