Etiquetas: AI services

Anthropic announced Monday that it is forming a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs to market its AI tools to corporate clients. Hours later, OpenAI disclosed a parallel effort, the Development Company, backed by $4 billion from 19 investors and valued at $10 billion. Both initiatives aim to give alternative asset managers preferred access to AI contracts while providing the labs with capital to expand engineering teams and embed technology directly into customer workflows. Leer más

OpenAI announced a new $100 monthly tier for ChatGPT Pro that boosts access to its Codex coding assistant by five times compared with the $20 Plus plan. The upgrade targets developers and power users who need longer, high‑effort coding sessions. By positioning the tier against Anthropic’s Claude Code Max, also priced at $100, OpenAI hopes to capture a share of the growing AI‑assisted programming market. Existing plans—free, $8 Go, $20 Plus, and a $200 Pro option— remain unchanged, giving users a broader spectrum of choices. Leer más

A new comparison of premium tiers across leading AI chatbots reveals a wide range of monthly costs and feature sets. OpenAI's ChatGPT offers three paid levels from $8 to $200 per month, while Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity and Grok each present distinct plans with varying storage, usage limits and advanced model access. The breakdown helps power users decide which subscription delivers the most value for their needs. Leer más

OpenAI announced a new $100-per-month Pro subscription aimed at developers who need higher limits for its Codex coding tool. The tier sits between the existing $20 Plus plan and a $200 tier that remains available but unlisted. OpenAI says the new plan offers five times the Codex capacity of Plus, positioning it as a direct challenge to Anthropic’s $100 Claude offering. Leer más

Anthropic experienced an outage affecting its Claude.AI, Claude Code, and Claude Opus 4.6 services that began just before 7 a.m. ET on Monday. The disruption lasted more than two hours, with Downdetector reporting a spike of nearly 2,000 reports around 6:45 a.m. ET, later dropping to 275 by 9:30 a.m. ET. Anthropic announced at 11 a.m. ET that all services were back online and thanked users for their patience amid high demand. Leer más

Microsoft announced it has stopped providing Azure cloud storage and certain AI services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense after an internal investigation linked the unit’s use of its technology to the storage of surveillance data on Palestinian phone calls. The decision follows a Guardian report about Unit 8200’s use of Azure and reflects Microsoft’s long‑standing policy against facilitating mass civilian surveillance. The company said the review is ongoing, while employee activism and protests have intensified around Microsoft’s ties to Israel. Leer más