Claude launches new design tool, updates core model

Also shipped: ChatGPT and Cursor.

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Claude

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You can now use Claude Design to create visual things like designs, prototypes, slides, and one-pagers.

Frontier design: Anyone can build code-powered prototypes with voice, video, shaders, 3D and built-in AI. Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.

Over the coming weeks, we'll make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design, so you can connect it to…

Over the coming weeks, we'll make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design, so you can connect it to more of the tools your team already uses.

Original reportingIntroducing Claude Design by Anthropic LabsRead original ↗

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The new Claude Design tool lets you build prototypes using your voice, video, 3D elements, and built-in AI.

Instruction following. Opus 4.7 is substantially better at following instructions.

Interestingly, this means that prompts written for earlier models can sometimes now produce unexpected results: where previous models interpreted instructi…

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The Opus 4.7 model is much better at understanding and following your instructions and can now see high-resolution images more clearly.

Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help peopl…

While Claude Design may initially seem like it’s looking to compete with popular design app Canva, which has just expanded its own AI capabilities, Anthropic told TechCrunch that it’s intended to complement it rather than replace it.…

Original reportingAnthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals | TechCrunchRead original ↗

ChatGPT

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Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed 'side quests' TechCrunch

Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science research initiative, and Bill Peebles, the researcher behind AI video tool Sora, both announced their departures on Fri…

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Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere? TechCrunch

OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots.

Kevin Weil, who led the com…

Original reportingAre we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere? | TechCrunchRead original ↗

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Weil’s departure comes a day after his team released GPT-Rosalind , a new model to accelerate life sciences research and drug discovery.

Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism, is leaving the company, WIRED has confirmed. Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram.

Weil, who joined OpenAI in June 2024, announced last September that he would be starting a new initiative inside of the company called OpenAI for Science.

Original reportingOpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the CompanyRead original ↗

Cursor

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AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fresh capital, according to four sources familiar with the matter.

Battery Ventures, a new investor, may also participate in the financing, according to two sources.

Strategic investor Nvidia is also expected to write a check, one person said.

Original reportingSources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges | TechCrunchRead original ↗