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Tech Titans Clash At AI Frontier
The Billion Dollar Bet: Google & The AI Startup Anthropic
What this tells us about the future or Artificial Intelligence
Follow The Money
When tech giants put billions into a startup, it’s a clear sign that something significant is about to happen.
Anthropic, the AI startup specializing in language models and famous for its Claude chatbot, has just received huge investments from two of the world’s largest tech players: Google and Amazon.
All eyes on Anthropic then?
Anthropic And The Future Of AI
While Google’s upfront investment of $500 million with an additional commitment of $1.5 billion is making headlines, people forget that this is part of an ongoing collaboration that has been brewing for months: a $3 billion partnership with Google Cloud.
No doubt: Anthropic is THE alternative to OpenAI which is heavily backed by Microsoft. But interestingly, Anthropic has developed the chatbots “Claude” and “Claude 2” as direct competitors not only with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but also with Google’s own Bard.
So what’s driving Google to invest so heavily in Anthropic?
The answer: To challenge and possibly even surpass established AI models like GPT-4. With a $5 billion program, Anthropic not only has the potential to join the AI elite, but to redefine its boundaries.
They have some bold plans that already attracted attention from the tech world: During a funding round in May, the startup secured a $450 million commitment — again, with Google among the backers.
This level of engagement from industry leaders is a clear testament to Anthropic’s potential to revolutionize AI.
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