OpenAI, Anthropic compete with collegiate AI initiatives
April 3, 2025, 3:20 pm
Both OpenAI and Anthropic have independently launched new initiatives aimed at the higher education market. By offering free or subsidized AI tools to college students, each lab is vying for academic prominence, signaling intensifying competition in transforming educational technology and engagement through cutting‐edge generative AI solutions.
Two AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, introduced higher education initiatives on successive mornings—Anthropic at 8 AM Wednesday (its first major academic move) and OpenAI with nearly identical news at 8 AM Thursday.
Ever since ChatGPT debuted, universities have been panicking. Some banned the use of generative AI at school immediately, as products like ChatGPT can be used … The post Claude’s special new mode is the right way to use AI for homework appeared first on BGR.
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