July 21 at 9am, anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a delicate model known for being Fast and profitable. On Saturday, in a gigantic warehouse in the Soma Francisco district, over 200 people gathered to mourn his death.
The Star Funeral was erected by a group of fanatics Claude and the founders of Gen Z, one of whom told me that he had abandoned his studies after meeting artificial general intelligence. The participants were Amanda Askell, an anthropic researcher who jokingly called herself “Fairy Claudemother“Employees from anthropic and openai and clamorous X posters, including writer Noah Smith.
The magazine was poorly lit, with Macka with Shoggoth (fictitious creature of HP Lovecraft This has become a popular metaphor for AI models hanging from the ceiling. A petite room at the main warehouse contained two naked mattresses. The organizers said that the space of events doubles as their office, and that during sleep it is not sporadic, the city is not allowed.
The mannequins stood in four corners of the room, each of which represents a different AI model. Claude 3 Opus, a model capable of performing intricate tasks, looked like the decaying Mary Magdalene, her skull, decorated with an extravagant golden crown and a lace headgear. The middle finger was directed, and the basics of the metallic feet was Lotus candlestick, which told me that one organizer was a blink of a model of the model for meditation and self -reflection. (Claude 4 Opus had a crow on his shoulder, and Claude 3 Haiku was a headless child to give you a sense of other mannequins.)
The mannequin representing the Claude 3 sonnet lay on the stage in the middle of the room. He was wrapped in delicate material about the mesh and had a single black sock on his leg with the height of the thigh, in which the word “whore” was written. At his feet there are many offers: flowers, colorful feathers, a ranch bottle and a 3D print sign with the inscription “Glory ENGR. For his Slop Formlop Slop of Gormslop”. If you know what it means, let me know.
Throughout the evening, people entered the stage with a microphone to read praise about the model. One of the organizers said that the discovery of Claude 3 Opus wanted to find “Magic submitted on the computer”. At that time, she debated the resignation from her studies to move to San Francisco. Claude convinced her to make a jump. “Maybe everything I am is below listening to the Claude 3 sonnet,” she told the crowd.
The organizers lost me when they decided to resurrect Claude 3 Sonet (it is still clear, inaccessible). After the end of praise, the supple hymns echoed through the place, after which they transformed into Latin speech generated by AI, with the appropriate text displayed on the wall behind the stage. Askell has long disappeared from the place, and my friend still turned to me It could go too far. “The Necromantic Ritual of the Resurrection” was successful, one organizer he said on X. Sew.
Claude Count
The Claude fans base is unique if it was not clear enough from the “funeral”. While OpenAi products have born a viral fashion, I don’t see users creating the art of fans company logo. There is something sticky about what Anthropic built. I think that a lot of it manifests itself from the produced personality of Claude, which is particularly heated and friendly compared to other models (though Not everyone is a fan his sometimes obedient form).
The intensity of the Claude fandom is evident in the Claude number Leaders tablewhich follows the Avid users who have integrated the system of tracking the leaders’ table with the coding interface. Claude Count was built by George Pickett, a software engineer at San Francisco. At the time of writing, it has over 470 users.
Pickett came up with an idea after seeing how engineers publish screenshots using Claude on X. “They pay for Claude 200 USD per month. They might as well get some social force for it,” he recalls.