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Google invests $300M in AI startup Anthropic
- tikkun 4y agoThis is a huge deal! MSFT + OpenAI vs GOOG + Anthropic
- qualudeheart 4y agoIt is time.
- LunarAurora 4y agohttps://archive.ph/ciZPV https://archive.ph/ciZPV
- freediver 4y agoAnthropic is building Claude, a chatGPT alternative. Review here [1]. The move is interesting as it potentially signals doubt in their in own current AI capabilities (Deepmind/Lambda/Sparrow). Declinging to comment about it and not announcing this everywhere like Microsoft did with OpenAI is also odd. [1] https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude
- sharemywin 4y agoI think it's a way to hedge their bets without messing with the product they already. Also, if Anthropic is sued to oblivion from some kind of copyright lawsuit they probably only have 300M exposure
- impulser_ 4y agoI think it's just them giving computing power to an AI research company. The investment was made by Google Cloud. If they were doubting their own current AI capabilities, they could do a lot more than throwing a minutes worth of income at a company.
- freediver 4y agoGood points, I missed it was made by Google Cloud.
- belter 4y ago"...The start-up had raised more than $700mn before Google’s investment, which was made in late 2022 but has not previously been reported.... ...The company’s biggest investor is Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, which put in $500mn before filing for bankruptcy last year..."