Amazon has reportedly agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup, as the e-commerce giant ramps up competition with Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia in the burgeoning AI sector. According to TechCrunch, the massive investment underscores Amazon’s aggressive expansion into generative AI.
Initially, Amazon will inject $1.25 billion for a minority stake in Anthropic. Like Google’s Bard and Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic has developed its own AI-powered chatbot called Claude 2.
Anthropic was established in 2021 by former researchers from OpenAI after raising $124 million in initial funding. According to reports, the founders were motivated by concerns surrounding the safety and ethics of advanced AI systems. As such, Anthropic aims to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) with rigorous safety practices.
Claude features a simple conversational interface akin to ChatGPT. However, Claude has a substantially larger context
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