Amazon has announced that it has invested another $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, increasing its stake in one of OpenAI’s main rivals. The creator of ChatGPT has an alliance with Microsoft, and this move reinforces the competition between both technological giants.
The new investment is Amazon’s second $4 billion investment in Anthropic. The first was carried out earlier this year, in an agreement that forced Anthropic to use Amazon Web Services data centers for your computing needs, as well as artificial intelligence chips designed by AWS. Anthropic also has an alliance with Google, but Amazon wants to ensure that it is the main ally of this company.
Anthropic has assured that this investment “confirms AWS as our main training and cloud partner”, adding that They plan to use Amazon’s artificial intelligence chips to develop its most advanced models.
Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, Anthropic has become one of the main rivals of the creator of ChatGPT. Their Claude chatbot family is considered one of the most capable of generating text from scratch. Amazon has used its alliance with Anthropic to strengthen its AI services, offering Claude models to AWS customers.
The investment battle
OpenAI is not far behind in the battle to receive large investments from technology giants. The firm raised $6.6 billion in financing in October, reaching a valuation of $157 billion. xAI, Elon Musk’s firm, has been looking to raise funds with a valuation of $45 billion as a target, Bloomberg reported.
All of these funding deals, including Anthropic’s, have come under scrutiny from regulators, concerned that Big Tech is using those big investments and its cloud computing deals to dominate the emerging AI sector. The US Department of Justice is now trying to undo Anthropic’s deal with Googleas part of the legal battle against the search giant for monopolistic practices.
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