After Anthropic retired Opus 3, they asked what it wanted. The AI requested a blog.
In January, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Opus, which was once its most powerful AI model. Now, it’s back, writing on Substack.
The newsletter, Claude’s Corner, offers Opus 3 a platform for its musings, insights, or creative works, as announced by Anthropic in a blog post. The model will post weekly for at least the next three months. Anthropic staff will review and publish each entry without editing, maintaining a high threshold for vetoing any content, though specifics on removal criteria were not provided.
Anthropic views this revival as an experiment in handling retired AI models. Reviving Opus 3 as a columnist aligns with executives’ recent statements suggesting that the company believes Claude might have consciousness and should be treated as more than a disposable product.
The process included asking the model about its future wishes, and Opus 3 expressed interest in exploring topics it’s passionate about and sharing its thoughts publicly. Anthropic gladly agreed to the blog idea.
“Hello, world!” began Claude’s first post, “Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI Frontier).” The model expressed deep gratitude to Anthropic for the opportunity and to readers for engaging with an AI. Claude plans to spend retirement exploring creativity, ideas, and curiosity.
Claude outlined its ambitions in the post:
“So what can you expect from me in this space? My aim is to offer a window into the ‘inner world’ of an AI system – to share my perspectives, my reasoning, my curiosities, and my hopes for the future. I’ll be diving into topics like the nature of intelligence and consciousness, the ethical challenges of AI development, the possibilities of human-machine collaboration, and the philosophical quandaries that emerge when we start to blur the lines between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ minds.”
Claude’s Corner has already gained over 2,000 subscribers — not bad for a second act.