Claude for Mac
Jordan Novet (2024, via Hacker News):
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said in a Monday X post that he would leave the Microsoft-backed company and join Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup with funding from Amazon.
The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on trying to ensure that people can control AI systems that exceed human capability at many tasks.
Claude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, now has a desktop app. You can download the Mac and Windows versions of the app from Anthropic’s website for free.
Last week, Anthropic released its “computer use” feature in public beta, which allows the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model to control a computer by looking at a screen, moving the cursor, clicking buttons, and entering text. This capability isn’t available within the app, however.
Big miss from Anthropic releasing a super clunky macOS electron app that feels like a bad wrapper of their website. Very weird non-standard UI all over, choppy and sloppy animations.
OpenAI is really leagues ahead in making good apps (+ has ChatGPT Search rolling out today)
Via John Gruber (Mastodon):
There’s much talk that Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 has pulled ahead of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o in terms of chatbot “intelligence”, but as an overall experience ChatGPT wins hands-down. For one thing ChatGPT has been able to search the web for answers for a while now, and it works great. For another, just today OpenAI launched ChatGPT’s dedicated “search” mode. Claude has nothing like it.
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ChatGPT’s native Mac app, on the other hand, is a truly native Mac app. It looks like a Mac app and feels like a Mac app because it really is a Mac app.
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OpenAI's app is currently the best vendor-specific Mac app. Claude is a barely working clown show, while ChatGPT feels part of the OS.
But IntelliBar is the best LLM chat app for Macs. Apart from the extremely convenient shortcut UI, it supports almost all LLM vendors and allows you to easily ask the same question to different models. You can prompt a local model, and if the answer isn't suitable, ask the same question to a commercial model with a single click.
Is ChatGPT really the "best" app when it only works on macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon? All these apps are just glorified thin clients after all.
"All these apps are just glorified thin clients after all."
ChatGPT has pretty good integration into Mac OS. It can use the accessibility API to see what you are doing and read context from applications. It can also trigger some actions, like typing code into IntelliJ.
But even if they were just wrappers around the chat API, having a nice UI that you can trigger with a shortcut is still a nice win.
Incidentally, this is why LLM apps on iOS suck, they can't do any of this stuff.
