Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a chatbot that can read a novel in less than a minute

Image: Anthropic An often overlooked limitation for chatbots is memory. While it's true that the AI language models that power these systems are trained on terabytes of text, the amount these systems can process when in use -- that is, the combination of input text and output, also known as their "context window" -- is limited. For ChatGPT it's around 3,000 words. There are ways to work around this, but it's still not a huge amount of information to play with. Now, AI startup Anthropic (founded ...