Anthropic to release a 'two-way' voice mode for Claude

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the company plans to release a "two-way" voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that lets Claude remember more about users and past conversations, according to a report by TechCrunch on Monday.

Amodei also revealed that Anthropic expects to release "smarter" AI models in the coming months, and that the company has been "overwhelmed" by the "surge in demand" in the last year.

"The surge in demand we've seen over the last year, and particularly in the last three months, has overwhelmed our ability to provide the needed compute," Amodei said.

Anthropic has raised 13.7 billion U.S. dollars in capital to date, racing to keep pace with its chief AI rival, OpenAI. It reportedly lost billions of dollars last year.