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Researchers have identified ten security issues in the research-oriented AI chatbot Perplexity. Perplexity was released one week after ChatGPT, right as the maelstrom around artificial intelligence ...

Sarvam’s Indus, a multilingual AI chatbot built on a 105-billion-parameter Indian large language model. Available on app stores and web, it supports voice interaction, language switching, document ...

Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot is now available as an Android app. After introducing the platform’s free iOS app in May, Android owners can now also play with the company's AI on their ...

Anthropic announced the release of a new Claude Android app that uses their powerful Claude 3.5 Sonnet language model. The app is available free (with usage limits) and also with paid plans. Claude is ...

Remember just two years ago when ChatGPT burst onto the scene, and suddenly, everyone was talking about AI? Since then, the tech world has been in a full-blown AI arms race, with every major player ...