Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

July 1, 2024: Anthropic Funds Next-Gen AI Benchmarks - Anthropic has initiated a funding program aimed at creating new, comprehensive benchmarks for evaluating AI models, including generative ones like its own Claude. This program seeks to develop benchmarks that address AIs security, societal impacts, and capabilities, with a focus on AI safety. It offers financial support to third-party projects that aim to craft better evaluational tools and methods for the AI community, amid concerns over the current benchmarks relevance and effectiveness.