Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic as a way to provide advanced deep learning and other services to its Amazon Web Service (AWS) customers, the company wrote in a press release. In return, AWS becomes Anthropic’s “primary cloud provider” to train and deploy its future foundation models. It’s the second large investment in the company, founded by former OpenAI executives, following Google’s $400 million partnership with the firm.
The e-commerce company will start with a $1.25 billion investment to gain a minority stake in Anthropic, with an option to boost that to a total of $4 billion. Along with Google and Amazon, Anthropic also counts Salesforce, Zoom, Spark Capital and others as backers. Notably, Anthropic’s deal with Google didn’t require it to buy cloud services from the search giant.
Anthropic recently unveiled its first consumer-facing chatbot Claude 2, accessible by subscription much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Claude “Constitutional AI”…
2023-09-25 04:53:21
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