Sep 25, 2023
Amazon takes on Microsoft as invests billion in Anthropic
Amazon will invest up to $4bn in San Francisco based AI firm Anthropic, mirroring the earlier tie up between Microsoft and OpenAI. It's the latest multi-billion dollar investment in a race among the big tech firms to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence. Founded in 2021, Anthropic an AI safety and research company is one of several AI start-ups which have recently emerged to compete with firms like Google DeepMind and OpenAI. As well as online retail, Amazon is a major provider of so-called cloud computing services. In turn, Amazon developers will be able to use Claude 2, the latest version of Anthropic's foundation AI model, to create new applications for its customers and enhance existing ones. Microsoft, which operates a cloud computing business called Azure, has a similar arrangement with OpenAI. And days after Amazon announced Alexa's AI powered planned upgrade, OpenAI revealed on Monday that users of chatGPT would be able to ask it questions by speaking to it, and post images which could be referred to in conversations. Anthropic said Amazon would take a minority stake in the business.
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